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6 unusual facts about Minya


2008 Egyptian bus accident

The 14 December 2008 Egyptian bus accident happened when a bus plunged into an irrigation ditch while traveling from Cairo to Minya killing at least fifty-five and injuring ten.

Bethsaida

On the rocky promontory, however, east of Khān Minyeh we find Sheikh ‛Aly eṣ-Ṣaiyādīn, “Sheikh Aly of the Fishermen,” as the name of a ruined weley, in which the second element in the name Bethsaida is represented (see also Al Minya).

Kamilia Shehata

Kamilia Shehata Zakher (born 1985) is a schoolteacher in Deir Mawas, Egypt, and the wife of Tadros Samaan, the Coptic Priest of Saint Mark's Church in Mowas Cathedral in Minya.

Minya, Egypt

Suzanne Mubarak (born 28 February 1941), Egypt's First Lady (1981–2011)

Mahmoud Abouelleil (born 24 December 1935), Judge and a former Minister of Justice of Egypt

With the break of the American Civil War in 1861, Egyptian cotton became an expensive commodity that was in high demand.


All Monsters Attack

In the English dubbed version, Minilla is renamed "Minya", and he is given a cartoony male voice.

Ammar El Sherei

Sherei was born blind on 16 April 1948 in the village of Samalot, 25 km from Minya in Upper Egypt, to a large family of Al Shereis.

Delga

Dalga a town of about 120,000 people in Minya Governorate in Egypt

Qasr Hur

Qasr Hur is a village in the governorate of Minya, Egypt, around 300 km south of Cairo, on the edge of the Western or Libyan desert.

Timeline of the 2011–12 Egyptian civil unrest under the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces

The foreign, justice, interior, and oil ministers resigned and three new ministers were named: General and former governor of Minya, Mansour El Essawi, became interior minister; Mohamed Abdel Aziz Al-Guindy became justice minister; and former judge Nabil Elaraby was appointed foreign minister.


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