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City in Qena, Egypt
This article is about the Egyptian settlement. For the cache of Gnostic texts discovered nearby, see
Nag Hammadi library
.
City in Qena, Egypt
Plaque of a local sugar refinery that mentions French town
Ardres
, 1901
Nag Hammadi
(
NAHG
h?-
MAH
-dee
;
Arabic
:
??? ?????
Nag? ?amm?d?
) is a city and
markaz
in
Upper Egypt
.
It is located on the west bank of the
Nile
in the
Qena Governorate
, about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north-west of
Luxor
. The city had a population of close to 61,737 as of 2023
[update]
.
History
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]
The town of Nag Hammadi was found on the site of older villages Ansan (
Arabic
:
?????
) and al-Luaqi (
Arabic
:
???????
)
[2]
in the 19th century and was named after its founder, Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi, a member of the Hammadi family in
Sohag
,
Egypt
. Mahmoud Pasha Hammadi was a major landholder in Sohag, and known for his strong opposition to the
British rule in Egypt
beginning in 1882.
In the city of Nag Hammadi, there is the palace of Prince Youssef Kamal, a member of the royal family (the family of
Muhammad Ali Pasha
), which overlooks the Nile River and is now an archaeological site.
[3]
Nag Hammadi is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) west of ancient
Chenoboskion
(
Ancient Greek
:
Χηνοβ?σκιον
)
The "
Nag Hammadi library
", an important collection of 2nd-century
Gnostic texts
, was found at
Jabal al-??rif
near Nag Hammadi in 1945.
[4]
The city was the site of the
Nag Hammadi Massacre
in January 2010, in which eight
Coptic
Christians
were shot dead by three men.
[5]
In total, nineteen Coptic Christians were attacked.
[5]
[6]
Economy
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]
Sugar
and
aluminium
are produced in Nag Hammadi. The Nag Hammadi Sugar factory was built in 1895-1897 by French contractors Cail and Fives.
[7]
It is still in operation in 2018.
Egyptalum
is one of the largest aluminium producer in the Middle East. Wood particleboard is manufactured from sugar cane bagasse.
See also
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