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GIRGA, or GIRGEH

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 48 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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GIRGA, or GIRGEH

GIRGA, or GIRGEH , a See also:

TOWN

town of Upper See also:

EGYPT

Egypt on the W. See also:

BANK

bank of the See also:

Nile, 313 M. S.S.E. of See also:

Cairo by See also:

RAIL

rail and about ro m. N.N.E. of the ruins of See also:

ABYDOS

Abydos. Pop. (1907) 19,893, of whom about one-third are See also:

COPTS

Copts. The town presents a picturesque See also:

APPEARANCE (from Lat. apparere, to appear)

appearance from the Nile, which at this point makes a See also:

sharp See also:

BEND

bend. A ruined See also:

MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque with a tall See also:

MINARET (from the Arabic mandrat ; manar or miner is Arabic for a lighthouse, a tower on which liar, fire, is lit)

minaret stands by the See also:

RIVER

river-brink. Many of the houses are of See also:

BRICK (derived according to some etymologists from the Teutonic bricke, a disk or plate; but more authoritatively, through the French brique, originally a " broken piece," applied especially to bread, and so to clay, from the Teutonic brikan, to break)

brick decorated with glazed tiles. The town is noted for the excellence of its pottery. Girga is the seat of a Coptic See also:

bishop. It also possesses a See also:

ROMAN

Roman See also:

CATHOLIC (Gr. KcaBoXuK6s, general, universal)

Catholic monastery, considered the most See also:

ancient in the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country. As lately as the See also:

MIDDLE

middle of the 18th See also:

CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century the town stood a See also:

QUARTER (through Fr. from Lat. quartarius, fourth part)

quarter of a mile from the river, but is now on the bank, the intervening space having been washed away, together with a large See also:

PART

part of the town, by the stream continually encroaching on its See also:

LEFT

left bank.

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