Abu Hummus, also Abu Humus, Abu Hommos, Abu Homos, Abou Homs () is a town in

Beheira Governorate Beheira ( ', , "the governorate of the Lake") is a coastal governorates of Egypt, governorate in northern Egypt. Located in the northern part of the country in the Nile Delta, its capital is Damanhur. Overview Beheira Governorate enjoys an impo ...

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, an administrative center of '' markaz'' Abu Hummus. The old name of the town is Shubra Bar () or Shunbar () which Ramzi derives from ''Chabriou Kome'' () named after

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. Gauthier derives the modern name from

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''hap-m-s'' ''"which hides what is in it"''.

Geography

Located midway between the city of

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and the western branch of the

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, south of Lake Adko, Abu Hummus spans between the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road and the El-Mahmoudeya Canal. The town has a Local court, City Town Hall, and a railway station. In 1911

Nakhla meteorite Nakhla is a Martian meteorite which fell in Egypt in 1911. It was the first meteorite reported from Egypt, the first one to suggest signs of aqueous processes on Mars, and the prototype for Nakhlite type of meteorites. History The Nakhla me ...

landed in the town."the meteoric stones of El Nakhla El Baharia (Egypt)"
by G.T.Prior, Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum; read November 14, 1911, ''

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,'' 1912, vol. 16, pp. 274–281"The Nakhla Meteorite"
– From

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"Nakhla meteorite fragment"
– From the Natural History Museum. Rotatable image of a fragment of the meteorite. URL accessed September 6, 2006. Many people witnessed the meteorite approaching from the northwest, inclination about °, along with the track marked with a column of white smoke. Several explosions were heard before it fell to

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in an area of in diameter, and about forty pieces were recovered; the fragments were buried in the ground up to a metre deep.

Markaz

, the population of the '' markaz'' Abu Hummus was estimated at 348,000. The markaz is known as the site of the

."the meteoric stones of El Nakhla El Baharia (Egypt)"
by G.T.Prior, Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum; read November 14, 1911, ''

,'' 1912, vol. 16, pp. 274–281

Notable people

Younes Makhioun Zakaria Younes Abdel-Halim Makioun () is an Egyptian MP who is currently the Chairman of the Salafist Al-Nour Party. He is also a member of the Constituent Assembly of Egypt. Life Younis Makyoun was elected to the People's Assembly of Egypt in t ...

References

Populated places in Beheira Governorate Towns in Egypt {{Egypt-geo-stub