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Shubra El Kheima, (Arabic: شبرا الخيمة, lit. 'hamlet of the tent', IPA: [ˈʃobɾɑ lˈxeːmæ], from Coptic: ⲥⲁⲡⲣⲟ ϩⲃⲱ, lit. 'hamlet of tent' [2]) is the fourth-largest city in Egypt after Cairo, Giza and Alexandria. It is located in the Qalyubia Governorate along the northern edge of the Cairo Governorate. [3]
Shubra is a common prefix for many places in Egypt, most of which originated as villages but may today be towns or even cities. For example the villages of Shubra Bekhoum, Quesna, Menoufia, and Shubra Beloula, Qutour, Gharbia, or Qalyubia's industrial city, Shubra El Kheima.
Banha and several other settlements blend into the neighboring Cairo Governorate; as a result, parts of Qalyubia (particularly Shubra El Kheima) are generally considered to form part of the Greater Cairo metropolitan area (along with Cairo governorate, Giza city and 6 October city).
Shubra El-Kheima ⲥⲁⲡⲣⲱ ϩⲃⲱ Saprō Hbō: [saˈproː əhˈβoː] Sabrō Ehwō: [saˈbroː əhˈwoː] A combination of "hamlet" (Coptic: ϫⲉⲃⲣⲟ) and "cover, tent" (Coptic: ϩⲃⲱ). شبرا الخيمة Musturad ϯⲙⲟⲛⲓ ⲛ̀ⲥⲟⲣⲁⲧ ti-Moni en-Sorat: [təmɔˈni ənsoˈrat] di-Moni en-Sorat: [dəmoˈni ...
A view of Shubra in 1862 by Léon Belly.. Muhammad Ali chose the fields around the then village of Shobra El-Kheima for the location of a rural retreat where he built himself a palace in the area overlooking the Nile and extended Shubra Street in 1808 from Bab al-Hadid in Cairo, to there. [5]
The Greater Cairo (Arabic: القاهرة الكبرى, romanized: Al-Qāhira al-Kubrā) is a metropolitan area centered around Cairo, Egypt.It comprises the entirety of the Cairo Governorate, the cities of Imbaba [b] and Giza in the Giza Governorate, and the city Shubra El Kheima in Qalyubia Governorate.
emember "Rumplestiltskin"? An impish man offers to help a girl with the . impossible chore she's been tasked with: spinning heaps of straw into gold. It's a story that's likely to give independent women the jitters; living beholden to a demanding king and a conniving mythical creature is no one's idea of romance.
13) Markos (Mark), metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Shubra el-Kheima. 14) Abram, metropolitan bishop of the Holy Metropolis of Faiyum. Being also the abbot of the Monastery of Archangel Gabriel in the Naqloun Mountain, Central Egypt.