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The City Of
Light ....The City Of Victory....The City Of
'''Damanhur,
Damanhour, damanhoor is a city
in Lower Egypt, and the
capital of Al Buhayrah|al-Buhayrah (Beheira or Behera)
governorate. It is located 160 km northwest of Cairo,
and 70 km E.S.E. of Alexandria, in the middle of the
western [[Nile Delta, at {{coor dm|31|03|N|30|28|E|}}.
It is an important communications center.
It was once the site of the city of '''Tmn-Hor''', which
was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian god Horus. In
Greek and Roman times it was called '''Hermopolis
Parva''' which would also give it an association with
Hermes, the Egyptien Thoth
The 1986 population was 188,939.
The richly-cultivated Beheira province gives rise to
mainly agricultural industries which include cotton
ginning, potato processing, and date picking. It also
has a market for cotton and rice.
Ahmed H.
Zewail, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1999,
was born here in 1946
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