Timay al-Imdid ( ar, تمي الإمديد ', cop, ⲑⲙⲟⲩⲓ ⲡϭⲓⲙⲉⲛⲧⲏϯ ' ''pčhimentēti''), the ancient Thmuis and Mendes, is a city and
markaz Markaz may refer to:
Organisations
* The Markaz, formerly the Levantine Cultural Center, a religious cultural center in West Los Angeles, California
* Markazu Saqafathi Sunniyya, a university in Kerala, India
* Markaz Knowledge City, a city proj ...
in
Dakahlia Governorate
Dakahlia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الدقهلية ', ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is approximately 3,500 km2. Although the capital of the governorate is Mansoura, it got its name from the ancient to ...
of
Egypt
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. The estimated population of the markaz in 2019 was 201,956, with 19,366 living in urban areas and 182,590 in rural areas.
Name
The name ''Timayy'' is derived from the
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
word ⲑⲙⲟⲩ ''tmoui'', meaning "island", a fairly common Coptic place name element. In this case it is an abbreviation of Demotic ''tꜣ-mꜣw.t-n-pr-bꜣ-nb-ḏd.t'' "the island of Mendes". The second part ''Amdid'' (older form Mandid or Mandadi) comes from , a compound toponym the first part of which is ϭⲓⲏ "border, edge" and the second one comes from
Egyptian
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''pr-bꜣ-nb-ḏd.t'' "temple of Aries of the lord of ḏdt" which is also the source of .
History
There were
Coptic
Coptic may refer to:
Afro-Asia
* Copts, an ethnoreligious group mainly in the area of modern Egypt but also in Sudan and Libya
* Coptic language, a Northern Afro-Asiatic language spoken in Egypt until at least the 17th century
* Coptic alphabet ...
revolts in Timayy in 107H and 216H. It had a
Christian
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bishopric.
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 Timay al-Imdid (as "Tami-el-Amdid") as a
nahiyah
A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...
Dakahlia Governorate
Dakahlia Governorate ( ar, محافظة الدقهلية ', ) is an Egyptian governorate lying northeast of Cairo. Its area is approximately 3,500 km2. Although the capital of the governorate is Mansoura, it got its name from the ancient to ...
; at that time, the population of the town was 1,338 (694 men and 644 women).
Notable people
*
El Deif Ahmed
El Deif Ahmed, ( ar, الضيف أحمد, December 12, 1936 – April 6, 1970) was an Egyptian actor. He was part of the stand-up comedy trio Tholathy Adwa'a El Masrah alongside George Sidhom and Samir Ghanem.Populated places in Dakahlia Governorate
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