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Kom Isfaht
Kom Isfaht (, from )is a town in the Upper Egypt Upper Egypt ( ar, صعيد مصر ', shortened to , , locally: ; ) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend upriver from Lower Egypt in the north to Nubia in the south. In ancient ...ian Asyut Governorate. It is located on the west bank of the Nile. It was a Roman village (Apollonopolites Heptakomias). During Muslim conquest, it was called kūra of Qahqawa. Overview Kom Isfaht is a locality of assuit , situated 40 minutes distance from Abu Tig, in the district of Abu Tig, in the province of Asyut. It has a population of 3,719 inhabitants, with no dependencies. References elsewhere are to the church of St George in Kom Isfaht and to the fact that its name in Roman Egypt was Apollinopolis Heptakomia in the nome, or province, of Apollinopolites Parvus. The records of a Strategos, or general, whose name was Apollonius, of Heptakomia have been preserved. There ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Governorates Of Egypt
Egypt has a Centralisation, centralised system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive (government), Executive. The country is divided into twenty-seven governorates ( '; ; genitive case#Arabic, genitive case: ; plural: '), the top tier of local administration. A governorate is administered by a governor, who is appointed by the President of Egypt and serves at the president's discretion. Governors have the civilian rank of minister and report directly to the Prime Minister of Egypt, prime minister, who chairs the Board of Governors ''(majlis al-muhafzin)'' and meets with them on a regular basis. The Ministry of Local Development, Minister of Local Development coordinates the governors and their governorate's budgets. Overview Egypt generally has four tiers of local administration units: governorates, cities, counties ''(marakiz)'', districts (subdivisions of cities) and villages (subdivisions of counties). There is a tie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
