Girga

Girga (Arabic جرجا, DMG Ǧirǧā; Tjeni ancient Egyptian, Coptic Tin (s), Greek Θίνις Thinis or Θίς This) is an Egyptian city, located on the west side of the Nile, and with a to ancient Egypt ancient history.

Importance

26.32988376388931.883697511111Koordinaten: 26 ° 20 ' N, 31 ° 53 ' E

The necropolis of the eighth Upper Egyptian nome ( Thinites ) located on the other side of the Nile village lay at Lepidotonpolis. The graves in the cemetery range from Frühdynastik to the Middle Kingdom.

Chief god of the city was Onuris, who had a temple in the Old Empire.

Manetho ( Africanus ) reports in its Aegyptiaca: " The first king was Menes of This. The second king, Athothis, built the new royal palace at Memphis. The nine kings of the second dynasty came from This ".

Prove inscriptions on Tonsiegeln that King (Pharaoh) Hetepsechemui, founder of the second dynasty, founded a new residence near This and called them " Hor - chaj - seba " ( " Horus, the shining star ").

Sons and daughters of the town

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