Milig, Egypt (original) (raw)
Milig (Arabic: مليج Milīj) is a village in Monufia Governorate of Egypt, in the Nile Delta. It is a short distance northeast of Shibin El Kom. Milig's souk meets for three days each week. One day is devoted entirely to the sale of cheese and butter ("suq al-gibna"), with women making up a majority of the merchants and customers, and the other two are for groceries and goods like clothes and kitchen utensils. The recorded Milig (as Melig) as a nahiyah in its own district in Monufia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 7,729 (3,903 men and 3,826 women).
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| dbo:abstract | Milig (Arabic: مليج Milīj) is a village in Monufia Governorate of Egypt, in the Nile Delta. It is a short distance northeast of Shibin El Kom. Milig's souk meets for three days each week. One day is devoted entirely to the sale of cheese and butter ("suq al-gibna"), with women making up a majority of the merchants and customers, and the other two are for groceries and goods like clothes and kitchen utensils. The recorded Milig (as Melig) as a nahiyah in its own district in Monufia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 7,729 (3,903 men and 3,826 women). The 10th-century geographer al-Muqaddasi listed Milig (as Malīj) among the cities in the Egyptian district of . A century later, in the 1060s and 70s, the Nile Delta was ravaged by Berber raids as well as famine. A Jewish legal document dated to September 1075, after the raiders had been driven out under Badr al-Jamali, records that Berbers of the tribe had sacked and looted Malij during the chaotic preceding years. (en) |
| dbo:country | dbr:Egypt |
| dbo:elevation | 17.000000 (xsd:double) |
| dbo:subdivision | dbr:Monufia_Governorate |
| dbo:synonym | Milīj |
| dbo:timeZone | dbr:Egypt_Standard_Time |
| dbo:utcOffset | +2 |
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| dbp:elevationM | 17 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:mapCaption | Location in Egypt (en) |
| dbp:name | Milig (en) |
| dbp:nativeName | (en) |
| dbp:otherName | Milīj (en) |
| dbp:populationBlank1Title | Ethnicities (en) |
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| dbp:pushpinLabelPosition | bottom (en) |
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| dbp:pushpinMapCaption | Location in Egypt (en) |
| dbp:pushpinMapsize | 300 (xsd:integer) |
| dbp:subdivisionName | dbr:Monufia_Governorate |
| dbp:subdivisionType | dbr:Governorates_of_Egypt Country (en) |
| dbp:timezone | dbr:Egypt_Standard_Time |
| dbp:unitPref | Imperial (en) |
| dbp:utcOffset | +2 (en) |
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| dcterms:subject | dbc:Populated_places_in_Monufia_Governorate |
| georss:point | 30.59574 31.0373 |
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| rdfs:comment | Milig (Arabic: مليج Milīj) is a village in Monufia Governorate of Egypt, in the Nile Delta. It is a short distance northeast of Shibin El Kom. Milig's souk meets for three days each week. One day is devoted entirely to the sale of cheese and butter ("suq al-gibna"), with women making up a majority of the merchants and customers, and the other two are for groceries and goods like clothes and kitchen utensils. The recorded Milig (as Melig) as a nahiyah in its own district in Monufia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 7,729 (3,903 men and 3,826 women). (en) |
| rdfs:label | Milig, Egypt (en) |
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| geo:long | 31.037300 (xsd:float) |
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| foaf:name | Milig (en) |
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