Minya

Minya is the capital of the Minya Governorate in Upper Egypt. It is positioned approximately 245 km south of Cairo on the western financial organization of the Nile River, which flows north through the city. The name of the metropolis is derived from its Ancient Egyptian name Men at Khufu, which means the nursing metropolis of Khufu, linking it to the Pharaoh Khufu or Cheops, builder of the Great Pyramid at Giza. During the Predynastic Period the vicinity encompassing current day Minya and its surrounding lands formed the 16^th nome. It remained a self sustaining metropolis kingdom until the ruler Menes unified Egypt round 3200 BC. At the time of its unification, Egypt has become divided into 42 nomes.

The 16^th nome has become additionally referred to as the Oryx nome, possibly because of the superiority of the Oryx, one of the antelope species that inhabited the place. After the unification of Egypt, the provincial capital of the 16^th nome emerged as a crucial middle of alternate. It grows to be opposite an alternate direction to the Red Sea alongside which the Levantine buyers sporting their items from Sinai and Canaan travelled.