Faqus ( ar, فاقوس ') is a city in the
Egyptian governorate of
Ash Sharqiyah Governorate
Sharqia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الشرقية ', , rural: ) is the 3rd most populous of the governorates of Egypt. Located in the northern part of the country, its capital is the city of Zagazig.
Overview
Bilbeis is the former capital ...
. Local attractions include
ancient Egyptian monuments in
Tell el-Dab'a,
Qantir
Qantir () is a village in Egypt. Qantir
is believed to mark what was probably the ancient site of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt, 19th Dynasty Pharaoh Ramesses II's capital, Pi-Ramesses or Per-Ramesses ("House or Domain of Ramesses"). It is situa ...
, and
Omm Egrim.
History
Faqus is identical with the ancient city of ''Phacusa''
( grc, Φάκουσα '),
which was the capital of the
nome of
Arabia.
It was subsequently mentioned by the medieval geographers
Qudama ibn Ja'far
Qudāma ibn Jaʿfar al-Kātib al-Baghdādī ( ar, قدامة بن جعفر الكاتب البغدادي; c. 873 – c. 932/948), was a Syriac scholar and administrator for the Abbasid Caliphate.
Life
Little is known with certainty about Qudama ...
,
Ibn Khordadbeh,
Maqrizi
Al-Maqrīzī or Maḳrīzī (Arabic: ), whose full name was Taqī al-Dīn Abū al-'Abbās Aḥmad ibn 'Alī ibn 'Abd al-Qādir ibn Muḥammad al-Maqrīzī (Arabic: ) (1364–1442) was a medieval Egyptian Arab historian during the Mamluk era, kn ...
,
Istakhri,
Ibn Hawqal, and
al-Muqaddasi
Shams al-Dīn Abū ʿAbd Allāh Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Abī Bakr al-Maqdisī ( ar, شَمْس ٱلدِّيْن أَبُو عَبْد ٱلله مُحَمَّد ابْن أَحْمَد ابْن أَبِي بَكْر ٱلْمَقْدِسِي), ...
.
The
1885 Census of Egypt
Events
January–March
* January 3–January 4, 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing dynasty, Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietn ...
recorded Faqus as a
nahiyah under the district of
Sawaleh in
Gharbia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 1,610 (836 men and 774 women).
Demographics
References
Notable people
*
Abdullah al-Sharqawi
Sheikh Abdullah al-Sharqawi ( ar, عبد الله الشرقاوي) (1737 – 1812) was an Egyptian writer and scholar of the Khalwati sufi order.al-islam. ''http://www.al-islam.org/sulh-peace-treaty-imam-al-hasan-shaykh-radi-aal-yasin/ubayd- ...
*
Yusuf Idris
Yusuf Idris, also Yusif Idris ( ar, يوسف إدريس) (May 19, 1927 – August 1, 1991) was an Egyptian writer of plays, short stories, and novels.
Biography
Idris was born in Faqous. He originally trained to be a doctor, studying at the U ...
See also
*
List of cities and towns in Egypt
Populated places in Sharqia Governorate
Towns in Egypt
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