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Upper Egypt ( Sa'id Misr) is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract
Cataracts of the Nile

The cataracts of the Nile River are shallow stretches between Aswan and Khartoum where the water's surface is broken by numerous small boulders and stones lying on the river bed, as well as many small rocky islets....
 section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut
Asyut

Asyut , is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate, Egypt; there is an ancient city nearby. The modern city is located at: , while the ancient city is located at: ....
 is sometimes known as Middle Egypt
Middle Egypt

Middle Egypt is the section of land between lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, stretching from El-Aiyat in the north to Asyut in the south....
. Modern inhabitants of Upper Egypt are known as Sa'idi
Sa'idi

A Sa'idi is a person from Upper Egypt . The word can also refer to a Music of Egypt#Saidi originating there, or to Sa'idi Arabic spoken by Sa'idis....
s; they generally speak Sa'idi Arabic
Sa'idi Arabic

Sa`idi Arabic is the variety of Egyptian Arabic spoken by Sa'idi south of Cairo to the border of Sudan. It shares linguistic features both with northern Egyptian Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic....
.

Upper Egypt is on the western side of the Nile River, which runs over 4,000 miles long.

Upper Egypt was known as Ta Shemau which means "the land of reeds." It was divided into twenty-two districts called 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....
s.






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Upper Egypt ( Sa'id Misr) is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract
Cataracts of the Nile

The cataracts of the Nile River are shallow stretches between Aswan and Khartoum where the water's surface is broken by numerous small boulders and stones lying on the river bed, as well as many small rocky islets....
 section of Upper Egypt, between El-Ayait and Asyut
Asyut

Asyut , is the capital of the modern Asyut Governorate, Egypt; there is an ancient city nearby. The modern city is located at: , while the ancient city is located at: ....
 is sometimes known as Middle Egypt
Middle Egypt

Middle Egypt is the section of land between lower Egypt and Upper Egypt, stretching from El-Aiyat in the north to Asyut in the south....
. Modern inhabitants of Upper Egypt are known as Sa'idi
Sa'idi

A Sa'idi is a person from Upper Egypt . The word can also refer to a Music of Egypt#Saidi originating there, or to Sa'idi Arabic spoken by Sa'idis....
s; they generally speak Sa'idi Arabic
Sa'idi Arabic

Sa`idi Arabic is the variety of Egyptian Arabic spoken by Sa'idi south of Cairo to the border of Sudan. It shares linguistic features both with northern Egyptian Arabic, as well as Sudanese Arabic....
.

Upper Egypt is on the western side of the Nile River, which runs over 4,000 miles long.

Upper Egypt was known as Ta Shemau which means "the land of reeds." It was divided into twenty-two districts called 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....
s. The first nome was roughly where modern Aswan
Aswan

Aswan , Egyptian language: Swenet , Coptic language: Swan; Greek language: Syene; ) is a city in the south of Egypt, the capital of the Aswan Governorate....
 is and the twenty-second was at modern Atfih
Atfih

Atfih is a city in Middle Egypt, in the Al Jizah Governorate. Its population numbered 106,300 in 2001. The name is derived from Egyptian language Tpyhwt, meaning the first of the cows, referring to Hathor....
 (Aphroditopolis
Atfih

Atfih is a city in Middle Egypt, in the Al Jizah Governorate. Its population numbered 106,300 in 2001. The name is derived from Egyptian language Tpyhwt, meaning the first of the cows, referring to Hathor....
), just to the south of Cairo
Cairo

Cairo , which means "the triumphant", is the Cairo and largest city of Egypt.It is the most populous metropolitan area in Egypt and is also one of the most populous in the world....
.

The main city of predynastic Upper Egypt was Nekhen
Nekhen

Nekhen, was the religious and political capitol of Upper Egypt at the end of the Predynastic Egypt period and probably, also during the Early Dynastic Period of Egypt ....
 (Greek Hierakonpolis), whose patron deity was the vulture goddess Nekhbet
Nekhbet

In Egyptian mythology, Nekhbet was an early predynastic local goddess who was the patron of the city of Nekheb, her name meaning of Nekheb....
. For most of pharaonic Egypt's history Thebes was the administrative center of Upper Egypt. After its devastation by the Assyrians its importance declined. Under the Ptolemies the city of Ptolemias took over the role of capital of Upper Egypt. Upper Egypt was represented by the tall White Crown Hedjet
Hedjet

Hedjet is the formal name for the White Crown of Pharaoh Upper Egypt. The crown was white and, after the unification of Ancient Egypt, it was combined with the Deshret of Lower Egypt, with the Nile Delta to form the Pschent, the Double Crown of Egypt....
, and its symbol was the flowering lotus.

In modern Egypt, the title Prince of the Sa'id
Prince of the Sa'id

Prince of the Sa'id was the title used by the heir apparent to the Egyptian throne prior to the abolition of the monarchy following the Egyptian Revolution of 1952....
 (meaning Prince of Upper Egypt) was used by the heir apparent
Heir apparent

An heir apparent is an heir who cannot be displaced from inheriting; the term is used in contrast to heir presumptive, the term for a conditional heir who is currently in line to inherit but could be displaced at any time in the future....
 to the Egyptian throne. Although the Egyptian monarchy was abolished in 1953, the title continues to be used by Muhammad Ali, Prince of Said
Muhammad Ali, Prince of Said

Prince Muhammad Ali, Prince of the Sa'id is the son of Fuad II of Egypt by his wife, Fadila .Prince Muhammad Ali was raised and educated between Europe and Morocco....
 and Hereditary Chief, Sheikh Beja Khawr al`allaqi, Prince of Sa'id.

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    Adolf Erman

    File:Adolf Erman.jpgJohann Peter Adolf Erman was a renowned Egyptologist and lexicographer; born in Berlin, the son of Georg Adolf Erman and grandson of Paul Erman....
    ; Hermann ,Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache
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