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Tel Alfarama

Tel Alfarama in The victories Road 

  
Tel Farma located East of Port Said on the road to El Arish at the mouth of Qantara branch Neil Albelozy and includes archaeological months hills in northern Sinai. And Afarama city Pharaonic old was called Barr Amon any city of the god Amon In Greco established its suburb of the southwestern invited as Beloziom and that the large number of mud remnants of water Nile branch, which was up to it has been invited to section Albelozy, has overshadowed name Bellows on the city Farma all in Greco and I knew it, and was called in the Coptic era as Brany any sticky mud and Burma, a Pharaonic of the same name has been turned into a name Farma.
 
Farma has stated in the Bible as the Seine and mentioned in Ezekiel (30: 15, 16) have been then many sites for this call Ezekiel Fort Egypt. Was this city great fame in the fields of industries crockery and decorative fabrics linen, and was issued produced by the White Sea to Rome, Athens and Cyprus and Crete and the territory of Sham great has occupied city Afarama geographic location and urban significant than called Napoleon Bonaparte to be called its name on the world's first was accompanied by his campaign to Egypt called him Count de Bellows.


Among the most famous effects region city of Tharu and through Horus Military: have revealed Mission Supreme Council of Antiquities, which has by Excavations in the effects Ahbuh within 3 kilometers east of the Suez Canal of Kantara east of Castle massive Military with walls built of mud brick and the castle discovered supported a number of defense towers Rectangular numbering about 24 towers of the towers huge compared towers castles military fortifications previous disclosure, and is considered the fort's military discovered the eastern facade of the city of Tharu Ancient Egyptian, which was considered the starting point for the armies of Egypt in the era of the modern state to secure Egypt's eastern borders, and describes the work of detection Active that Site discovered he was married with a number of water-filled trenches each as water against the enemy positions.




The discoveries show that the city of Tharu discovered eastern Nile branch old Sinai Tel Ahbuh was purely defensive but the other side of the city west of the Nile was the stores and administrative buildings and temples, and describes the artifacts recovered from excavations she goes back to the era of King Thutmose III as there are additions and expansions by the era of King Ramses II.



And this discovery is completed milestones disclosure city of Tharu from the east and west of the Nile As stated for engraving famous journey of King Seti I on the walls of the temples of Karnak, which shows castles by Horus Military old in the era of the modern state between Egypt and Palestine from the East Qantara and even Egyptian Rafah and confirm artifacts discovered that the city was used in the Old Kingdom and Middle Kingdom and prospered militarily in the era of the modern state until the Roman era, it is also the Egyptian city which was including siege Ovaris Hyksos capital according to the latest discoveries Active where was liberated city of Tharu of the Hyksos military action led by King Ahmose then the King besieging the capital Ovaris Sharqia.

The importance of disclosure in that the largest military fortifications discovered in Egypt from the era of the modern state through the family 19 and 18 as it fort large structures to secure the entrance to the Delta and protect the capital of King Ramses II Ramesses, which filed Sharqia in qantir area. It seems that the fighting has revolved around the walls of the fort discovered where detect residues horses and bones subhuman to great battles.
 
Also confirms the fort discovered that the entrance to the Delta east of hand Sinai he was married to a number of military forts in addition to mind aqueous huge is the River Nile old, and was by crocodiles and had access to the delta through the arch constructed on the Nile and up between both banks of the city of Tharu, where he was part of which is located west of the Nile and another east of the Nile, which came on the famous engraving of the Temple of Karnak in Luxor.

It consists by Horus Military old between Egypt and Palestine as stated inscription King Seti I at Karnak of 11 military fortress in addition to 9 wells or water tanks, carrying castles built by East Qantara and even Egyptian Rafah names of the kings Egypt bones from the era of the modern state.



Tel churches and the entry of the Holy Family Egypt


Farma diocese was one of the oldest Aabarchiat Saint Mark Episcopate, containing a large number of monasteries and churches and that, of course, because it was the first station to enter the Holy Family Egypt. Among the most famous of these monasteries monastery hill Hir is located in easy Tina at the northern end of the Suez Canal from the East, has been terrorizing this monastery hermit St. world Aasivors the Faramy and became head of the monastery.

He was born Aasadoros Faramy year 650 and terrorizing Berah Hihat which in the age of eighteen as monk Ibamajos and studied at St. Youannes Fr Hihat for five years and was ordained priest monastery of St. Great Makarios the Great, then moved out of the wilderness Hihat to Monastery of the Virgin in tennis Island Lake Manzala and drawing Qmassa, then became bishop of Farma in the first days Anba Mikhail Pope sixth and forty (744 768 m),


This has departed bishop after having lived more than a hundred years about the year 750 AD, and suggest that this monastery references under full of until the year 1118. Tel churches included the ruins of four churches, also includes region Mahma Mr. Christ, which is one of the most important Mahmat protected Jesus Christ Virgin Mary followed Mahma Mostorod and bathed the baby Jesus. 

 

Mahmal Road


Has seen this way also an important event, a transfer covering of the Kaaba, which were manufactured in Egypt to the Hijaz remained the tradition followed until 1962 where refrained Arabia for receiving convoy loaded carrying cladding was loaded accompanied big celebrations in both Egypt and there incident funny happened on 16 March where it is today an important day in the SPLM days of the French campaign where the campaign prevented French cladding transfer to the Kaaba, but people insisted on the establishment of the festival accompanying the transfer of cladding was already and that was on March 16, 1799 and the ceremony took place loader.


Finally this civilizational momentum enjoyed by this area makes us think about how to take advantage of them and turn it into a tourist product that provides a lot of jobs for the North Sinai Governorate as well as substantial income by providing investment opportunities for this promising region.
 
 


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