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Lycopolis and Lykopolis redirect here; for the ancient city bearing those names located in the delta of the Nile, see Lycopolis (Delta)
Lycopolis (Delta)

Lycopolis or Lykopolis , or the Deltaic Lycopolis was an ancient town in the Sebennytic nome, in the neighbourhood of Mendes, and, from its appellation, apparently founded by a colony of Osiris priests from Upper Egypt....
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Asyut , is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate

Asyut Governorate

Asyut Governorate is one of the governorates of Egypt of Egypt. It stretches for about 120 km along the banks of the Nile. The capital of the governorate is the city of Asyut....
, Egypt

Egypt

Egypt is a country mainly in North Africa, with the Sinai Peninsula forming a land bridge in Western Asia. Covering an area of about , Egypt borders the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Gaza Strip and Israel to the northeast, the Red Sea to the east, Sudan to the south and Libya to the west....
; there is an ancient city nearby. The modern city is located at: , while the ancient city is located at: .

name of the city is derived from early Egyptian

Egyptian language

Egyptian is a branch of the Afro-Asiatic languages language family along with the Chadic languages, Berber languages, Semitic languages, Cushitic languages and possibly Omotic languages languages....
Zawty (Z3JW.TJ) (late Egyptian, S?yáwt) into the Coptic

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic languages language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century....
Syowt .

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Asyut , is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate

Asyut Governorate

Asyut Governorate is one of the governorates of Egypt of Egypt. It stretches for about 120 km along the banks of the Nile. The capital of the governorate is the city of Asyut....
, Egypt

Egypt

Etymology

The name of the city is derived from early Egyptian

Egyptian language

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic languages language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century....
Syowt . In Graeco-Roman Egypt, it was called Lycopolis or Lykopolis (Greek

Greek language

Greek is an Indo-European languages native to the southern Balkan peninsula, the language of the Greek people. It forms an independent branch within Indo-European....
: ????p????, ""), Lycon, or Lyco .

Ancient Asyut

Around 3100 BC ancient Asyut was the capital of the Thirteenth Nome

Nome (Egypt)

A nome was a subnational administrative division of ancient Egypt. Today's use of the Greek nome rather than the Egyptian language term sepat came about during the Ptolemaic Egypt period....
of Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

Nile

The Nile is a major north-flowing river in Africa, generally regarded as the List of rivers by length in the world.The Nile has two major tributary, the White Nile and Blue Nile, the latter being the source of most of the Nile's water and silt, but the former being the longer of the two....
. The two most prominent gods

Egyptian pantheon

Most Egyptologists today side with Sir Flinders Petrie that Egyptian religion was strictly polytheistic. His contemporary adversary, E. A. Wallis Budge, however, thought Egyptian religion to be primarily monotheistic where all the gods and goddesses were aspects of the God Ra, similar to the Trinity in Christianity and devas in Hinduism....
of pre-Christian

Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
Asyut were Anubis

Anubis

Anubis is the Greek language name for a jackal-headed deity associated with mummy and the afterlife in Egyptian mythology. In the ancient Egyptian language, Anubis is known as Inpu, ....
and Wepwawet

Wepwawet

In late Egyptian mythology, Wepwawet was originally a war deity, whose cult centre was Asyut in Upper Egypt . His name means, opener of the ways....
, both funerary deities.

During the First Intermediate Period

First Intermediate Period of Egypt

The First Intermediate Period, often described as a ?dark period? in ancient Egyptian history, spanned approximately three hundred years after the end of the Old Kingdom from ca....
, the rulers of "Zawty"; Khety I, Itefibi, and Khety II were supporters of the Herakleopolitan

Herakleopolis Magna

Herakleopolis Magna is the Greek language name of the capital of the Twentieth nome of ancient Egypt. It was called Henen-nesut, Nen-nesu, or Hwt-nen-nesu in Egyptian language, meaning 'house of the royal child.' Later, it was called Hnas in Coptic language, and Ahnas in medieval Arabic language writings....
kings, of whose domain the Nome formed the southern limits. The conflict between this Nome and the southern Nomes under the rule of the Eleventh dynasty

Eleventh dynasty of Egypt

The Eleventh dynasty of ancient Egypt was one group of rulers, whose earlier members are grouped with the four preceding dynasties to form the First Intermediate Period, while the later members are considered part of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
ended with the victory of Thebes

Thebes, Egypt

Thebes was a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile . It was the capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian Nome ....
and the decline of Asyut's importance.

The shield of a king named Recamai, who reigned in Upper Egypt

Upper Egypt

File:Ancient Egypt map-en.svgUpper Egypt is a narrow strip of land that extends from the Cataracts of the Nile section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut is sometimes known as Middle Egypt....
(probably during the "shepherd dynasty" in the "Lower Country"), has been discovered in Asyut . Lycopolis has no remarkable ruins, but in the excavated chambers of the adjacent rocks are found mummies of wolves, confirming the origin of its name, as well as a tradition preserved by Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus , was a Roman Greece historian who flourished in the 1st century BC. According to Diodorus' own work, he was born at Agira in Sicily ....
, to the effect that an Aethiopian army, invading Egypt, was repelled beyond the city of Elephantine
Elephantine

Elephantine is an island in the Nile, located just downstream of the Cataracts of the Nile at at the southern border of Ancient Egypt. This region is referred to as Upper Egypt because the ancient Egyptians oriented themselves toward the direction from which the river flowed....
by herds of wolves. Osiris

Osiris

Osiris was an Egyptian mythology, usually called the god of the Afterlife.Osiris is one of the oldest gods for whom records have been found; one of the oldest known attestations of his name is on the Palermo Stone of around 2500 BC....
was worshipped under the symbol of a wolf at Lycopolis. He having, according to a myth, come "from the shades" under that form, to aid Isis

ISIS

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and Horus

Horus

Horus is a god of the Ancient Egyptian religion, most commonly known by the Greek language version Horus, of the Egyptian language Heru/Har....
in their combat with Typhon

Typhon

In Greek mythology, Typhon , also Typheus/Typhoeus , Typhaon or Typhos is the final son of Gaia , fathered by Tartarus, and is the god of wind....
. Other Ancient Egyptian monuments discovered in Asyut include; the Asyut necropolis

Necropolis

A necropolis is a large cemetery or burial place . Apart from the occasional application of the word to modern cemeteries outside large towns, the term...
(west of the modern city), tombs which date to dynasties Nine

Ninth dynasty of Egypt

The Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, 9th, Tenth dynasty of Egypt and Eleventh dynasty of Egypt List of Egyptian Dynasties are often combined under the group title, First Intermediate Period....
, Ten

Tenth dynasty of Egypt

The Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Seventh and eighth dynasties of Egypt, Ninth dynasty of Egypt, 10th and Eleventh dynasty of Egypt List of Egyptian Dynasties are often combined under the group title, First Intermediate Period....
and Twelve

Twelfth dynasty of Egypt

The Eleventh , Twelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dynasties of ancient Egypt are often combined under the group title, Middle Kingdom of Egypt....
, and Ramessid

Ramesside Period

The Ramesside Period encompasses the Nineteenth dynasty of Egypt and Twentieth dynasty of Egypt of Ancient Egypt. It is named after "Ramesses", the name taken by the majority of the rulers of Egypt dating to this period of time....
tombs of Siese and Amenhotep

Amenhotep

Amenhotep is the name of several Ancient Egyptian pharaohs of the 18th Dynasty:*Amenhotep I*Amenhotep II*Amenhotep III*Akhenaten Amenhotep may also be:...
.

In Graeco-Roman times, there was a distinct dialect of Coptic

Coptic language

Coptic or Coptic Egyptian is the final stage of the Egyptian language, a northern Afro-Asiatic languages language spoken in Egypt until at least the seventeenth century....
spoken in Asyut, known as "Lycopolitan", after the Greek name for the city. Lesser-used names for this dialect are "Sub-Akhmimic" and "Assiutic".

Modern Asyut

Today, the city of Asyut has almost 400,000 inhabitants. It is the Egyptian city with the highest Coptic Christian concentration. It is also home to the , one of the largest universities

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
in Egypt

Egypt

Assiut Barrage

The Assiut Barrage is a dam on the Nile in the city of Assiut in Upper Egypt . It was designed by the famous British engineer Sir William Willcocks who also designed and built the Aswan Dam....
, and to the Lillian Trasher

Lillian Trasher

Lillian Hunt Trasher was a Christian missionary to Assiout, Egypt, as well as the founder of the first orphanage in Egypt.Trasher was born in Florida, and grew up in Georgia....
Orphanage.

The Virgin Mary is reported to have appeared in Asyut. This apparition is recognized as official by the Coptic Orthodox Church.

People from Asyut

Coluthus
Coluthus

Coluthus, often Colluthus, of Lycopolis in the Egyptian Thebaid, was an epic poet writing in Greek, who flourished during the reign of Anastasius I ....
(5th century) Greek poet
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Gamal Abdel Nasser

Gamal Abdel Nasser was the second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death in 1970. Along with Muhammad Naguib, he led the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, which removed Farouk of Egypt and heralded a new period of industrialization in Egypt, together with a profound advancement of Arab nationalism, including a short-lived United Arab Republ...
- The second Egyptian
1952 Revolution

The Egyptian Revolution of 1952 , also known as the July 23 Revolution, began with a military coup d'?tat that took place on July 23, 1952 by a group of young army officers who named themselves "The Free Officers Movement"....
president
President

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.
Shenouda III, current Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed
Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed

Ahmed Lutfi el-Sayed was an Egyptians intellectual, anti-colonial activist, and a former rector of Cairo University. He was fondly known as the Professor of the Generation ....
- Egyptian nationalist.
Meletius of Lycopolis
Meletius of Lycopolis

Meletius was bishop of Lycopolis in Egypt. He is known to us mainly as the founder and namesake of the Melitians , one of several sects in early church history which were concerned about the ease with which lapsed Christians reentered the Church....
, founder of the Meletians
Meletians

The Meletians consisted one of several sects in early church history. They were concerned about the ease with which lapsed Christians reentered the church. They were named after Meletius of Lycopolis....

Twinnings
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Iasi
Iasi

Iasi , is a Cities in Romania and Municipality in Romania in north-eastern Romania. The city was the capital of Principality of Moldavia from the 16th century until 1861 and of Romania between 1916?1918 during World War I....
, Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....

Bibliography

Loprieno, Antonio: Ancient Egyptian: A Linguistic Introduction, Oxford U Press 1996. ISBN 0-521-44849-2
Baines & Malek Cultural Atlas of Ancient Egypt, 2000. ISBN 0-8160-4036-2
Kahl, Jochem: Ancient Asyut: The first Synthesis after Three Hundred Years of Research. The Asyut Project vol. I. Wiesbaden 2008. ISBN-13: 978-3447056663

Asyut

Etymology

Ancient Asyut

Modern Asyut

People from Asyut

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Twinnings
List of twin towns and sister cities

This is a list of "twin towns" or "sister cities" ? that is, pairs of towns or cities in different countries which have town twinning arrangements....