Английская Википедия:Abu Hummus
Abu Hummus, also Abu Humus, Abu Hommos, Abu Homos,[1] Abou Homs (Шаблон:Lang-ar) is a town in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, an administrative center of markaz Abu Hummus.
The old name of the town is Shubra Bar (Шаблон:Lang-ar) which Ramzi derives from Chabriou Kome (Шаблон:Lang-grc) named after Chabrias.[2] Gauthier derives the modern name from Egyptian hap-m-s "which hides what is in it".[3]
Geography
Located midway between the city of Alexandria and the western branch of the Nile Delta, south of Lake Adko, Abu Hummus spans between the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road and the El-Mahmoudeya Canal.[4]
The town has a Local court, City Town Hall, and a railway station. In 1911 Nakhla meteorite landed in the town.[5][6][7] Many people witnessed the meteorite approaching from the northwest, inclination about 30°, along with the track marked with a column of white smoke. Several explosions were heard before it fell to Earth in an area of Шаблон:Convert in diameter, and about forty pieces were recovered;[8] the fragments were buried in the ground up to a metre deep.
Markaz
Шаблон:As of, the population of the markaz Abu Hummus was estimated at 348,000.[1] The markaz is known as the site of the Nakhla meteorite.[5]
Notable people
References
- ↑ 1,0 1,1 Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ "Abu Hummus" Шаблон:Webarchive, a Durham University webpage
- ↑ 5,0 5,1 "the meteoric stones of El Nakhla El Baharia (Egypt)", by G.T.Prior, Keeper of Minerals in the British Museum; read November 14, 1911, Mineralogical Magazine, 1912, vol. 16, pp. 274–281
- ↑ "The Nakhla Meteorite" – From NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- ↑ "Nakhla meteorite fragment" – From the Natural History Museum. Rotatable image of a fragment of the meteorite. URL accessed September 6, 2006.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite conference
