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    Faiyum (redirect from Fayyum)
    Faiyum (Arabic: الفيوم el-Fayyūm  pronounced [elfæjˈjuːm], borrowed from Coptic:  ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ Phiom or Phiōm from Ancient Egyptian: pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake")...
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  • The Fayyum Fragment (Papyrus Vindobonensis Greek 2325 [P. Vienna G. 2325]) is a papyrus fragment containing text that could be from part of the New Testament...
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    Faiyum Oasis (redirect from Fayyum Oasis)
    The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Waḥet El Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo...
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    "the waterway of Joseph") is a canal which connects the Nile River with Fayyum in Egypt. In ancient times it was called Tomis (Ancient Greek: Τωμις) by...
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    36333; 30.74583 Faiyum Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الفيوم Muḥāfāzah Al Fayyūm) is one of the governorates of Egypt in the middle of the country. Its capital...
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    location of Itjtawy has not been discovered yet, but is thought to be near the Fayyum, probably near the royal graveyards at el-Lisht. The order of its rulers...
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    Mummy portraits or Fayum mummy portraits are a type of naturalistic painted portrait on wooden boards attached to upper class mummies from Roman Egypt...
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    Females rusty to rusty olive. Curruca melanocephala norissae Nicoll, 1917: Fayyum warbler - probably only a local morph of momus Nile Delta region. Extinct...
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    in what is now Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan. The Islamic period in the Fayyum depression of Middle Egypt, like medieval Islamic Spain (al-Andalus), was...
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    The question of the race of ancient Egyptians was raised historically as a product of the early racial concepts of the 18th and 19th centuries, and was...
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    lyonsi from fossil remains found in the Qasr el Sagha Formation in the Al Fayyum in Egypt. Andrews described Moeritherium gracile from fossil remains of...
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    Church (Fayyum) Holy Virgin Mary Coptic Orthodox Church (Fayyum) St. Damiana Coptic Orthodox Church (Fayyum) St. George Coptic Orthodox Church (Fayyum) St...
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    midway between Oxyrhynchus and Herakleopolis, on the outskirts of the Fayyum and quite near to the modern site of Deshasheh. Here, as Papyrus Wilbour...
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  • Fayoum University (FU) (Arabic: جامعة الفيوم, Jame'at al-fayoum) is a public university located in the Egyptian city of Faiyum in northern Egypt. From...
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    to Peter include the Secret Book of James and the Acts of Peter. In the Fayyum Fragment, which dates to the end of the 3rd century, Jesus predicts that...
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  • 2003. Zecchi, Marco (2010). Sobek of Shedet : The Crocodile God in the Fayyum in the Dynastic Period. Umbria: Tau Editrice. p. 206. ISBN 9788862441155...
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    Oasis 118 Depression  Egypt Jizah El Heiz Oasis 123 Depression  Egypt Fayyum Fayyum Oasis 32 Depression  Egypt Al Wadi al Jadid Abu Minqar Oasis 117 Depression...
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  • al-Ṣāliḥ, commanded al-Nābulusī to audit the agricultural production of the Fayyum region of Egypt, whose productivity had fallen, and which al-Malik al-Ṣāliḥ...
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    000), Alexandria (pop. 30,000), Qus (pop. 25,000), Damietta (pop. 18,000), Fayyum (pop. 13,000), and Bilbeis (pop. 10,000). Numerous smaller cities dotted...
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    This equation is particularly well attested in Tebtunis in the southern Fayyum: Geb and Cronus were here part of a local version of the cult of Sobek,...
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    Polyeuctos in Jerusalem.[better source needed] A papyrus discovered in 1892 at Fayyum and containing Greek words written in Armenian script has been dated on...
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    two-thirds of their fiefs to use as compensation for the fief-holders at Fayyum. The Bedouin were also accused of trading with the Crusaders and, consequently...
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  • Faiyum or Fayoum or Fayyum may refer to: Faiyum, a city in the Faiyum Oasis in Middle Egypt. Faiyum Oasis, in the Faiyum region in Egypt. Faiyum Governorate...
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  • New Faiyum (Arabic: الفيوم الجديدة Madīnat al-Fayyūm al-Jadīdah) is a planned city in Middle Egypt. A third-generation new Egyptian city, it is a suburb...
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    There are indications of seasonal or only temporary occupation of the Al Fayyum in the 6th millennium BCE, with food activities centering on fishing, hunting...
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    Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Naqlun, Fayyum) Holy Virgin Mary (Deir al-Hammam) Coptic Orthodox Monastery - (Luhan, Fayyum) St. Macarius of Alexandria Coptic...
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    known as 'Medinet al-Faiyum') at the entrance to the depression of the Fayyum oasis. It is the site of a pyramid built by the Pharaoh Amenemhat III in...
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    Gospel of Peter, Gospel of Thomas, Oxyrhynchus Gospels, Egerton Gospel, Fayyum Fragment, Dialogue of the Saviour; Jewish Christian Gospels: Gospel of the...
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    Modern name ⲥⲓⲱⲟⲩⲧ (siōout) أسيوط (ʾasyūṭ) Asyut ⲫⲓⲟⲙ (phiom) الفيوم (al-fayyūm) Faiyum ϯⲙⲉⲛϩⲱⲣ (timenhōr) دمنهور (damanhūr) Damanhur ⲥⲟⲩⲁⲛ (souan) أسوان...
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    in the Southern Levant, with affiliate connections with the cultures of Fayyum and the Eastern Desert of Egypt. Cultures practicing this lifestyle spread...
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