Qalyub ( arz, قليوب ; cop, ⲕⲁⲗⲓⲱⲡⲉ
[ p.71]) is a city containing a rural
markaz, and an urban one.
It is located in the
Qalyubia Governorate
Qalyubia Governorate ( ar, محافظة القليوبية ' ) is one of the governorates of Egypt. Located in Lower Egypt. It is situated north of Cairo in the Nile Delta region. Its capital is Banha.
Name
Name of Qalubiyya governorate is driv ...
of
Egypt
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, in the northern part of the
Cairo
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metropolitan area, at the start of the
Nile Delta. In 1986, it had a population of 84,413 inhabitants, which grew to 106,804 residents by 2006, a more than average growth.
Name
The name of the city comes from a Greek personal name
Calliope
In Greek mythology, Calliope ( ; grc, Καλλιόπη, Kalliópē, beautiful-voiced) is the Muse who presides over eloquence and epic poetry; so called from the ecstatic harmony of her voice. Hesiod and Ovid called her the "Chief of all Muse ...
().
Calliope is an ancient Greek goddess, the Muse of epic poetry.
Overview
Qalyub is the commercial center for a significant agricultural region, and some records indicate that Qalyub has had a farmer's market, regularly, for close to one thousand years.
The people of Qalyub have often proven to be self-reliant like in 1905 when they built their own 500-bed hospital with no help from the state.
Years later, the community received money from
USAID
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is an independent agency of the U.S. federal government that is primarily responsible for administering civilian foreign aid and development assistance. With a budget of over $27 bi ...
for the hospital and the school, however, as in many rural villages, the Ministry of Social Affairs angered residents for not doing enough for them.
In 1982, the Basic Village Service Program (BVS), under the auspices of USAID, had twenty-five water projects slated for Qalyub.
On February 13, 2005, Qalyub was the location of a politically significant
strike
Strike may refer to:
People
* Strike (surname)
Physical confrontation or removal
*Strike (attack), attack with an inanimate object or a part of the human body intended to cause harm
*Airstrike, military strike by air forces on either a suspected ...
over the benefits and the
privatization
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of the Qalyub Spinning Company.
Qalyub was the site of the
Qalyoub train collision in August 2006.
, small cars, with government-issued license plates, can be seen in modern-day Qalyub as the district has seen a ''more than average'' increase in population growth.
Other
The ''
Qalyub orthonairovirus'' is a member of the
Bunyaviridae
''Bunyavirales'' is an order of segmented negative-strand RNA viruses with mainly tripartite genomes. Member viruses infect arthropods, plants, protozoans, and vertebrates. It is the only order in the class ''Ellioviricetes''. The name ''Bunyav ...
group of vertebrate-infecting
virus
A virus is a submicroscopic infectious agent that replicates only inside the living cells of an organism. Viruses infect all life forms, from animals and plants to microorganisms, including bacteria and archaea.
Since Dmitri Ivanovsk ...
es and was named after the town.
References
{{Cities of Egypt
Populated places in Qalyubiyya Governorate
Districts of Greater Cairo