Middle Egypt

Middle Egypt is the modern name given to the part of Egypt to both sides of the Nile, which goes from today Beni Suef to Qena today. It forms the northern part of the ancient Egyptian Upper Egypt, but which nowadays features only its southern part. Occasionally, also, the area is south thereof included up to Luxor.

It includes the provinces of Beni Suef, al - Minya, Asyut and Sauhadsch. In the north, Lower Egypt closes to the south of Upper Egypt.

The region has been inhabited since prädynastischer time. Numerous monuments demonstrate the importance in ancient Egyptian times. Here are Beni Hasan, Dair al - Berscha, Mair and Asyut the most important Gaufürstengräber the First Intermediate Period and the Middle Kingdom. South of al - Minya is the former capital of Akhenaten Amarna at the end of the 18th Dynasty.

Additional information is found in this area, the most important Coptic monasteries of Egypt, the majority of Coptic Christians is located here. Among the most important monasteries belong Bawit ( at Asyut ), the White and Red Monastery west of Sohag and the Dair al - Muharraq south of Mallawi.

Middle Egypt came in the early 1990s to notoriety as the center of the radical Muslim Brotherhood; particularly in Asyut. There, the most attacks on tourists and security forces, which led to the collapse of tourism in this region occurred. Only since the late 1990s, the area is considered to be safe again, although this is guaranteed only with massive police presence.

• Region in Africa
• Geography (Egypt)
• Geography ( Ancient Egypt )