Abu Hummus
Abu Hummus
أبو حمص | |
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town | |
 Location in Beheira Governorate | |
  Abu Hummus Location in Egypt  Abu Hummus Abu Hummus (Egypt) | |
| Coordinates: 31°06′02″N 30°18′36″E / 31.100643°N 30.310063°E | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Beheira Governorate |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+3 (EEST) |
Abu Hummus, also Abu Humus, Abu Hommos, Abu Homos,[1] Abou Homs (Arabic: أبو حمص) is a town in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, an administrative center of markaz Abu Hummus.
The name is derived from Egyptian hap-m-s "which hides what is in it".[2] Abu Hummus spans between the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road and the El-Mahmoudeya Canal.[3]
Markaz
As of 2007[update], the population of the markaz Abu Hummus was estimated at 348,000.[1] The markaz is known as the site of the Nakhla meteorite.
Notable people
References
- ^ a b Ortega, O.Y.; The University of Iowa. Applied Mathematical & Computational Sciences (2008). Evaluation of Rotavirus Models with Coinfection and Vaccination. University of Iowa. p. 17. ISBN 9780549683223. Retrieved 2015-06-24.
- ^ Gauthier, Henri (1927). Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques. Vol. 4. p. 10.
- ^ "Abu Hummus" Archived 2012-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, a Durham University webpage
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