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
مليج Milīj | |
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  Ibyar Location in Egypt  Ibyar Ibyar (Egypt) | |
| Coordinates: 30°35′45″N 31°02′14″E / 30.59574°N 31.0373°E[1] | |
| Country |  Egypt |
| Governorate | Monufia |
| Elevation | 56 ft (17 m) |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
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.[2]
The 1885 Census of Egypt 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).[3]
The 10th-century geographer al-Muqaddasi listed Milig (as Malīj) among the cities in the Egyptian district of Ar-Rif.[4] 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 Lewata tribe had sacked and looted Malij during the chaotic preceding years.[5]
References
edit- ^ a b "Geonames.org. Milīj". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ Mohieddin, Mohamed M. (1998). "Rural Periodic Markets in Egypt". In Hopkins, Nicholas S.; Westergaard, Kirsten (eds.). Directions of Change in Rural Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. p. 301. ISBN 977-424-663-2. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ Egypt min. of finance, census dept (1885). Recensement général de l'Égypte. p. 216. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
- ^ al-Muqaddasī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (1897). Ahsānu-t-taqāsīm Fī Maʻrifati-l-aqālīm. p. 318. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- ^ Cohen, Mark R. (1980). Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9781400853588. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
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