El Delengat ( ar, الدلنجات) is a city in Beheira Governorate in

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Geography

El Delengat is about 21 kilometers south of Damanhour the governorate's capital. It is bordered to the south by the Tahrir region, to the east by

Kom Hamada Kom Hamada is a city in Beheira Governorate in Egypt. History After the French campaign arrived to the west of Alexandria on July 2, 1798, AD, they marched into the city and occupied it and then Napoleon took a march on Cairo through Damanhur, w ...

, Itay El Barud, and to the west by

Hosh Essa Hoch Eissa ( ar, حوش عيسى) is a city in Beheira Governorate, Egypt. The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Hoch Eissa as a nahiyah in the district of Abu Hummus in Beheira Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 1,480 (745 me ...

. It includes 5 local village units, 45 villages, and 771 followers. The city is famous for agriculture, industry, trade and investment, and it contains urban, rural and Bedouin, and the education rate is high in urban and rural areas, and Aldlnjat participate in the third section of football. Among the most important quarters of the city of Delengat: * Al-Rawda quarter * Al-Zahra quarter (New Delengat) * Hammouda quarter * Al-Ashlam quarter * Sidi Hamad quarter * Hindi quarter * Al-Taflah quarter * Al-Fakharani quarter * Downtown quarter * Al-Aqraa quarter * Al-Saha'a quarter * Al-Sawy quarter * Abboud quarter

History

The history of the Delengat dates back to the era of the Pharaohs, where there are several archaeological sites dating back to 2000 BC, such as the Kom King Freen, which is located in the village of Kom Fren Baldengat, which is one of the most important and largest archaeological hills. During the 19th Dynasty in the era of

Ramesses II Ramesses II ( egy, rꜥ-ms-sw ''Rīʿa-məsī-sū'', , meaning "Ra is the one who bore him"; ), commonly known as Ramesses the Great, was the third pharaoh of the Nineteenth Dynasty of Egypt. Along with Thutmose III he is often regarded a ...

, a fortress was built from the fortification system erected by King Ramses II in the west of the Delta to defend the western borders of Egypt from the raids coming from the

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, which is located in the north of the city. The

1885 Census of Egypt Events January–March * January 3–January 4, 4 – Sino-French War – Battle of Núi Bop: French troops under General Oscar de Négrier defeat a numerically superior Qing dynasty, Qing Chinese force, in northern Vietn ...

recorded El Delengat (as ''El-Delingat'') as a

nahiyah A nāḥiyah ( ar, , plural ''nawāḥī'' ), also nahiya or nahia, is a regional or local type of administrative division that usually consists of a number of villages or sometimes smaller towns. In Tajikistan, it is a second-level division w ...

in its own district in Beheira Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 1,768 (939 men and 859 women).

References

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