The City Of Light ....The City Of Victory....The City Of Damanhour

1-Damanhour in the old legends in the days of god Horns:

We have found that Damanhour and it's belonging to the god Horns reflects the good manners which the ancient Egyptians found in Horns.

(The City of Light)&(The City of Victory)&(EL Behira City) as it's written in (The Book of Death) and the pictures and sculptures in the temples.

2-Damanhour in the Hieroglyphic scripts and the Coptic period :

the prophesier (Gauthier) has trace the origin of Damanhour in the Hieroglyphic scripts and the Catholic period and what it had became in the Arabic period and said that in fact it was called (DMI-N-HOR) and it was found in Bat limos the sixth list in Edko ,but the Greek called it (THERMOPOLIS -PARVA) which means Hermes small city.

3-Damanhour in The Batlamic period:

it was a capital of a state and it was called (BANDIT) but the Coptic return it's Arabic name and spell it DAMANHOUR and then it came DAMANHOUR.

and as it was the capital of the state then the governor was living in it and he was called NOMARQUE and in his serve the captain STRATEGY and under their hands all the workers who was taking money for the Bat limos and Roman and for the  Bezant.

and Damanhour was the arch for the Arab when the Roman was defeated by the Islamic conquest and Amr Ebn EL Aas wrote for it's opening with the other cities .

and in the sixth century of the hegira and exactly in the period of disagreement between The Amaweins and The Mamoon in the years 199-201 of hegira Damanhour has witnessed a bloody fights .

*and in 565 hegira EL Behiera was a private property for the king Negm El Dean Ayop and then it came to Salah El Dien El Aiopy by the Khaleifah AL Added Lediin Allah Al Fatemi .

*and in the year 578 the traveler (Abn Gibber) visited Damanhour and said it's a wide landed city with a lot of uncounted villages surround.

*and in the seventh century go hegira the traveler (Abn Batoota) visited and it was a big city because as he said (The Mother of El Behiera Cities).

*And (Abn Dokmak) talk about Damanhour in the eighth century of hegira and said :it's a big city an it has a lot of mosques, schools, bathes and hotels and also it's the base of El Behiera site of the governor for the Delta and he is called the King of princes and it has a bay from Alexandria Bay .

*And in the year 781 of hegira the Sheikh Erban EL Behiera (Badr Ben Salaam) made a revolution then Barkook send a military expedition contains eight generals with their soldiers to beat them and in the next year Badr Ben Salam made another revolution then EL Shaabany came with an expedition containing 500 Mamlook and they beat them and their leader ran away.

*And in the year 882 of hegira the sultan Kaitbay visited Damanhour in his travel in EL Behiera .

*Abn Zameil El Ramal talked about Damanhour in the tenth century of hegira and said that in El Behiera there is a city called Damanhour and it's that base of the region and the base of rule, and it has the sweetest watermelon on earth, and Aamer's sons lived on it and build palaces and it became an inhabited city and in this period the prince Eisa Abn Ismaiel was the governor of these all regions and he was a fair minded and generous and a great governor so then it came the city Hosh Eisa on his name .

*Soneiny in his trip to Egypt talked about the visits of El Behiera which he has visit including Damanhour and said it's famous about cotton trade .

*Klot bek said that the population of Damanhour in these days was about 8 to 10 thousand citizen.

*Damanhour has witnessed especially and all the cities of El Behiera generally the most bloody fights between Mohamed bek El Alfy and Mohamed Ali forces and El Alfy camped in front of Damanhour.                                         and Mohamed bek El Alfy kept waiting for the British in their new invasion to Egypt, and he sent someone to told Damanhour people that he has take advantage of Egypt but Damanhour people knows his lies and resist the blockade till they win in 1806 and EL Alfy died in 30 Jan.1807 before the British came in Frizer failed military expedition in March 1807 which  the people win it while Mohamed Ali was thinking about running away after he failed he and the army to defend the pride of Egypt.

And what should be mentioned that the destruction was all over the country after Frizer expedition, and Mohamed Ali built a factory for textile and spin to produce blankets for the soldiers and it was taken from Damanhour to El Gokh factory to be painted .

*And in the last century a lot of French tourists visited Damanhour like (Broun)(Cherol)(Sonin) and the last one who said about Damanhour it's a big city but it's building have a green bricks and he ment the place where the Bek lives (the governor of the city) and the Kashef (the center for the cotton trade) which come from other cities .

*Ali Mobarak mentioned it in (EL Khotab EL Tawfekeya) and resaid what was told by the ancient about it that Damanhour was eight cities in the first days (Shobra-EL Damanhouria-Kartasa-Tamoos-Nakraha-Sakaneida) and these five still exist till now.

*and Ali MObarak says that (Shobra-Damanhour) is on the west side for the railway in the lft hand for the going to Alexandria, But Kartasa is on the east of the railway in front of Shobra, Nakraha is on the markets by the west bank for El Khatatba canal and also Sakaneidah.

and they all became one big city with palaces like Alexandria and it has the Diwan and a big court for El Negeila,Abo Homos,El Atef,El Dalangat and Shebrakheet.

and also Ali Mobarak mentioned it's mosques and shops and the foreigners and it's churches.

The Source (Mohamed Mahmod Zayton Book).

*And After the revolution of 1952 and the local manage system came and the publication of the law no.34 for the year 1979 and the publication for the republic decision which came to make Mr. Yousef AL Hamshary the first president for the city council and from then they followed till Mr.Ismaiel Abd EL Kawy take charge of it now in the present time .