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Abusir Bana
أبو صير بنا | |
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  Abusir Bana Location in Egypt | |
| Coordinates: 30°54′00″N 31°14′05″E / 30.90000°N 31.23472°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Gharbia |
| Population (2006) | |
| • Total | 22,214 |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
Abusir Bana (Arabic: أبو صير بنا), anciently known as Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις; Coptic: ⲡⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, ⲃⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲓ, romanized: pusiri, busiri, lit. 'house of Osiris'[1][2]), is a village in Gharbia governorate, Egypt. The population is 22,214 people, according to the official census of 2006.
In antiquity, Busiris was the chief town of the Ati nome in Egypt. It stood east of Sais, near the Phatnitic mouth on the western bank of the Damietta Branch of the Nile. The city's pharaonic name was Djedu.[3] The modern name is a compound, where the name of the nearby town Bana (Arabic: بنا, Coptic: ⲡⲁⲛⲁⲩ, lit. 'one of the donkey, ass') was added to differentiate it from other settlements of the same name spread around Egypt.
- ^ Pauline Tudri. "Our Egyptian Coptic Language" (in Arabic). Retrieved 2022-11-11.
- ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2022-12-08.
- ^ Farouk Gomaà (1999). "Busiris (Abu Sir Bana)". In Kathryn A. Bard (ed.). Encyclopedia of the Archaeology of Ancient Egypt. London: Routledge. p. 207.