Al Minya

::Alternate meaning: This article is about an Egyptian Governorate. For the Russian steam battleship, Netron Menya, see the List of Russian steam battleships.

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Al Minya (Arabic: ?????? ?????? ) is one of the governorates of Upper Egypt. The name originates from a tribesmen's (possibly Jordanians) old-fashioned Arabic dialect meaning of destiny/-nation. And it's dubbed by the locals as عروس الصعيد or the "Bride of Upper-Egypt". To represent its vitality for linking north of the nation with upper Egypt (southern part), also to race with Alexandria; being nicknamed the "Bride of the Mediterranean Sea" ? or عروس البحر المتوسط. The name may as well refer to a famous ancient Egyptian tradition, possibly near one of the ancient sites, known as the bride of the Nile, of a sacrificial practice of sinking a female virgin into the River Nile as a gift-wife for the annual flood to come high and early.

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Governorate: A governorate is a subnational entity. The term is mostly used to translate the Arabic muhafazah (plural muhafazat), also spelled mohafazah (mohafazat). It may also refer to the Governorates and Governor-Generalships of Imperial Russia (, tr.: guberniya)....

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