Faiyum (Arabic: الفيومel-Fayyūm pronounced [elfæjˈjuːm], borrowed from Coptic: ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or ⲪⲓⲱⲙPhiom or Phiōm from Ancient Egyptian: pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum Governorate. Originally called Shedet in Egyptian, the Greeks called it in Koinē Greek: Κροκοδειλόπολις, romanized: Krokodilópolis, and later Medieval Greek: Ἀρσινόη, romanized: Arsinoë.[1] It is one of Egypt's oldest cities due to its strategic location.[1]
^ abPaola Davoli (2012). "The Archaeology of the Fayum". In Riggs, Christina (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt. Oxford University Press. pp. 152–153. ISBN 9780199571451.
as Fayum, Faiyum or al-Faiyūm. Faiyum was also previously officially named Madīnat al-Faiyūm (Arabic for The City of Faiyum). The name Faiyum (and its...
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...
Coordinates: 29°21′48″N 30°44′45″E / 29.36333°N 30.74583°E / 29.36333; 30.74583 Faiyum Governorate (Arabic: محافظة الفيوم Muḥāfāzah Al Fayyūm) is one of the governorates...
entire Faiyum region – the "Land of the Lake" in Egyptian (specifically referring to Lake Moeris) – served as a cult center of Sobek. Most Faiyum towns...
Egypt, but are most common in the Faiyum Basin, particularly from Hawara and the Hadrianic Roman city Antinoopolis. "Faiyum portraits" is generally used as...
The Fayum alphabet is an Ancient Greek abecedary inscribed on four copper plates, purportedly found in Fayum, Egypt but made in Cyprus. It may preserve...
Faiyum Sporting Club (Arabic: نادي الفيوم للألعاب الرياضية), is an Egyptian football club based in Faiyum, Egypt. The club is currently playing in the...
transition to agriculture. Weaving is evidenced for the first time during the Faiyum A Period. People of this period, unlike later Egyptians, buried their dead...
The Book of the Faiyum is an ancient Egyptian "local monograph" celebrating the Faiyum region of Egypt and its patron deity, the crocodile god Sobek. It...
and the Faiyum obelisk) is an ancient stone monument erected by the Egyptian pharaoh Senusret I in the 20th century BC near what is now Faiyum. Sometime...
Greek: Μοῖρις, genitive Μοίριδος) is an ancient lake in the northwest of the Faiyum Oasis, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Cairo, Egypt. In prehistory, it was a...
Waqf El Wasta El Zarqa Esna Ezbet El Borg Faqous Faraskur Farshut Fayed Faiyum Fuka Girga Giza Hihya Hosh Essa Hurghada Ibsheway Ihnasiya Ismailia Itay...
The Fayoum Light Railway (FLR) was a 750 mm (2 ft 5+1⁄2 in) gauge Egyptian light railway. Founded by a group of Egyptian Coptic investors, it operated...
city remains unidentified. Itjtawy is known to have been located in the Faiyum region and documentation exists that its cemeteries were located at Lisht...
John XIV Cyril V Macarius III Cyril VI Bishops Abadiu of Antinoe Abraam of Faiyum Alexander of Jerusalem Amun of Scetes Basil of Caesarea Cyril of Jerusalem...
of the country, and a number of Dom clans mostly in the Nile Delta and Faiyum who are progressively becoming assimilated as urbanisation increases. Some...
(Ancient Greek: Κροκοδείλων πόλις) which was distinct from the one in the Faiyum and, according to Strabo's Geographica, was located between Hermonthis (Armant)...
corridor of the Northeastern United States.) The cities of Jericho, Aleppo, Faiyum, Yerevan, Athens, Damascus and Argos are among those laying claim to the...
John XIV Cyril V Macarius III Cyril VI Bishops Abadiu of Antinoe Abraam of Faiyum Alexander of Jerusalem Amun of Scetes Basil of Caesarea Cyril of Jerusalem...
cousin, Khaba II. The site which is in the vicinity of the oasis of the Faiyum, midway between Dahshur and Meidum, and about 100 kilometres south of Cairo...
John XIV Cyril V Macarius III Cyril VI Bishops Abadiu of Antinoe Abraam of Faiyum Alexander of Jerusalem Amun of Scetes Basil of Caesarea Cyril of Jerusalem...
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