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Faiyum (/ f aɪ ˈ j uː m / fy-YOOM; Arabic: الفيوم, romanized: el-Fayyūm, locally [elfæjˈjuːm]) [a] is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location. [2]
Cairo, the capital of Egypt, is a bustling metropolis that sits on the banks of the River Nile.Home to an estimated 22 million people, the city has more recently expanded into a sprawling jumble ...
The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Wāḥat al-Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt. The extent of the basin area is estimated at between 1,270 km 2 (490 mi 2 ) and 1,700 km 2 (656 mi 2 ).
Two decades later in 1920 [5] [6] his nephew, Spiro Spathis, expanded the family venture [4] in Cairo, by establishing Egypt's first soda beverage [7] and a soft drink's business that bore his name. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] [ 10 ] The company's logo featured a buzzing bee , a nod to the family's involvement in apiary businesses at the time.
Egypt portal Subcategories. This category has only the following subcategory. ... Pages in category "Faiyum" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
The ruins of Medinet Maadi temple Amenemhat III's cartouche at Medinet Maadi temple. Medinet Madi (Arabic: مدينة ماضي), also known simply as Madi or Maadi (ماضي) in Arabic, is a site in the southwestern Faiyum region of Egypt with the remains of a Greco-Roman town where a temple of the cobra-goddess Renenutet (a harvest deity) was founded during the reigns of Amenemhat III and ...
Tamiya, Egypt; Tunis, Faiyum Governorate This page was last edited on 10 June 2016, at 04:26 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...
JFK's food selection is as diverse as the airport itself, offering iconic tastes of New York at spots like The Palm Bar & Grille in Terminal 4, which brings New York steakhouse energy to the airport.