Abu Hummus
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| name = Abu Hummus
| native_name = أبو حمص
| native_name_lang = ar
| settlement_type = Town
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| map_caption = Location in Beheira Governorate
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| subdivision_type1 = Governorate
| subdivision_name1 = Beheira Governorate
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| area_total_km2 = 542.4
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| population_total = 569,157
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Abu Hummus, also Abu Humus, Abu Hommos, Abu Homos,{{cite book |title=Evaluation of Rotavirus Models with Coinfection and Vaccination |author1=Ortega, O.Y. |author2=The University of Iowa. Applied Mathematical & Computational Sciences |date=2008 |publisher=University of Iowa |isbn=9780549683223 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nAVU7q-qKisC&pg=PA17 |page=17 |access-date=2015-06-24}} Abou Homs ({{langx|ar|أبو حمص}}) is a town in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, an administrative center of markaz Abu Hummus.
The old name of the town is Shubra Bar ({{Langx|ar|شبرا بار}}) or Shunbar ({{Langx|ar|شُنْبَار}}){{Cite web |title=Papyrus information |url=https://www.apd.gwi.uni-muenchen.de/apd/show2.jsp?papname=Diem_Vind_I_130&line=1 |access-date=2024-04-17 |website=www.apd.gwi.uni-muenchen.de}} which Ramzi derives from Chabriou Kome ({{Langx|grc|Χαβρίου Κώμη}}) named after Chabrias.{{Cite book |last=رمزي |first=محمد |title=القاموس الجغرافي للبلاد المصرية |pages=622}} Gauthier derives the modern name from Egyptian hap-m-s "which hides what is in it".{{Cite book |title=Dictionnaire des noms géographiques contenus dans les textes hiéroglyphiques |last=Gauthier |first=Henri |year=1927 |volume=4 |pages=10}}
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.[http://www.dur.ac.uk/penelope.wilson/Delta/AbuHummus.html "Abu Hummus"] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120403175851/http://www.dur.ac.uk/penelope.wilson/Delta/AbuHummus.html |date=2012-04-03 }}, a Durham University webpage
The town has a Local court, City Town Hall, and a railway station. In 1911 Nakhla meteorite landed in the town.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160527132206/https://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_16/16-76-274.pdf "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[http://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/snc/nakhla.html "The Nakhla Meteorite"] – From NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory[http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/virtual-wonders/vrmeteorite5.html "Nakhla meteorite fragment"] – From the Natural History Museum. Rotatable image of a fragment of the meteorite. URL accessed September 6, 2006. Many people witnessed the meteorite approaching from the northwest, inclination about {{formatnum: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 {{convert|4.5|km}} in diameter, and about forty pieces were recovered;{{cite conference |author=McBridge, Kathleen M. |author2=Righter, K.|title=The 100th Anniversary of the Fall of Nakhla: The Subdivision of BM1913,25 |conference=74th Annual Meeting of the Meteroritical Society |date=August 8, 2011 |website=NASA Technical Reports Server |hdl=2060/20110014358 |hdl-access=free}} the fragments were buried in the ground up to a metre deep.
Markaz
{{As of|2007}}, the population of the markaz Abu Hummus was estimated at 348,000. The markaz is known as the site of the Nakhla meteorite.[https://web.archive.org/web/20160527132206/https://www.minersoc.org/pages/Archive-MM/Volume_16/16-76-274.pdf "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
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References
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