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ID: 1095524
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/1095524
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Jirjā (inhabited place)  Jirjā (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 26 20 18 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 26.3383  decimal degrees
Long: 031 53 30 E  degrees minutes   Long: 31.8916  decimal degrees

Note: Located on Nile river; developed around Mara Girgis Coptic Monastery (dedicated to St. George), from which the town derived its name; also is site of Roman Catholic monastery said to be the oldest in Egypt. Possibly the site of the lost settlement of Thinis.

Names:
Jirjā (preferred,C,V,English,U)
Jirga (C,V)
Girga (C,V)
Girgeh (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Egypt (nation)  ........  Egypt (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sūhāj (governorate)  ............  Sūhāj (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Jirjā (inhabited place)  ................  Jirjā (inhabited place) (P)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  site of an Early Dynastic settlement; later developed as an early Coptic center
town (C)
monastic center (C)
episcopal see (C)  ............  seat of Coptic bishop
archaeological site (C)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Thinis .......... (lost settlement)
..............................  (World, Africa, Egypt, Sūhāj, lost & found/Sūhāj) [8711897]

Sources and Contributors:
Girga..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 337
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
Girgeh..........  [VP]
.................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 337
Jirga..........  [VP]
..............  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 337
Jirjā..........  [VP Preferred]
..............  NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
..............  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 337
..................  NGA/NIMA database (2003-) -296334
..................  NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................  The Nile, National Geographic (1995) map supplement
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age (2010)

 

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