From Egypt Features # My trip to Asyut # 2
Asyut is the largest city in Upper Egypt, the capital of Assiut governorate and has the first largest regional university, Assiut University
The governorate is administratively divided into 11 centers, 11 cities, 2 districts, 52 rural local units.
It has 236 villages, 911 mansions
It has the oldest regional university, Assiut University, which includes 14 colleges in Assiut, a college in the university branch in the new valley province and a branch of Al-Azhar University, which includes 9 faculties
Asyut is one of the oldest governorates in Egypt and is the capital of Upper Egypt. Celebrates its national day on 18 April of every year, the anniversary of the popular resistance against the French on April 18, 1799
The area of the province is 232 thousand feddans, and is famous for the production of cotton, which achieved the first place in production for five consecutive years from 1996-2000 at the level of the republic, wheat, maize, sorghum citrus, pomegranate, mango, grapes and bananas.
The province contributes to industrial activity in major industries such as cement, fertilizer, oil refining, pharmaceuticals and cotton spinning and spinning. Six industrial zones were established in the governorate centers
Asyut International Airport was developed to be located 35 km from the city of Assiut on Assiut Road / New Valley. The construction of the new city of Assiut east of the Nile on an area of four thousand acres in the valley of Assiuti can accommodate 100 thousand people.
There are 38 Pharaonic, Coptic, Islamic and modern tourist attractions in the province, including the Mir area, the ruins of Hamamiyah, the monastery of Muharraq in Quseya, the monastery of the Virgin Mary in Badrneh, the Farghal mosque in Abbotij, the Azhar mosque in Assiut, the Umayyad mosque, the mosque of Assiut
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