Tahta

{{about|the city in Egypt|the British-Armenian mathematician|Dikran Tahta}}

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| name = Tahta

| other_name = {{lang|ar|طهطا}}

| native_name = {{lang|cop|{{Script/Coptic|ⲧϩⲟⲧⲏ}}}}

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| settlement_type = City

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| image_caption = I took an illustrated photo from the city of Tahta, which is located in Sohag Governorate, on November 14, 2024.

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| pushpin_map_caption = Location in Egypt

| subdivision_type = Country

| subdivision_name = Egypt

| subdivision_type1 = Governorate

| subdivision_name1 = Sohag

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| area_footnotes ={{cite web |title=Ṭahṭā (Kism (urban and rural parts), Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/egypt/admin/sawh%C4%81j/2606__%E1%B9%ADah%E1%B9%AD%C4%81/ |website=www.citypopulation.de |access-date=June 17, 2023}}

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| population_total = 182,052

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| timezone = EST

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| coordinates = {{coord|26|46|06|N|31|30|02|E|region:EG|display=inline,title}}

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{{hiero|ḥt tj(t){{cite book |last1=Wallis Budge |first1=E. A. |title=An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II |date=1920 |publisher=John Murray |page=[https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft/page/1019 1019] |url=https://archive.org/details/egyptianhierogly02budguoft}}|O6-X1:O1-U33-M17*M17-X1:O49|align=right|era=egypt}}

{{hiero|ḥt tj(t){{cite book |last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol .4 |date=1927 |page=[https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1927/page/n75 141] |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1927}} Gauthier refers to Daressy's identification.|O6-U33-M17*M17-X1:O49|align=right|era=3ip}}

Tahta ({{langx|ar|طهطا}} / {{IPA|ar|ˈtˤɑhtˤɑ|IPA}}, ALA-LC: Ṭahṭā; {{Langx|grc|Τοετω}};{{cite book |last1=Paprocki |first1=Maciej |title=Roads in the Deserts of Roman Egypt: Analysis, Atlas, Commentary |date=2019 |publisher=Oxbow Books |isbn=9781789251593 |page=22 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J3zKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA22 |accessdate=March 14, 2020}} {{Langx|cop|ⲧϩⲟⲧⲏ}}, {{IPA|cop|dəˈhodæ|Late Coptic}}) is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in an area known for its agricultural richness. Tahta had a population of 85,528 in the 2017 census.{{cite web|url=https://www.citypopulation.de/Egypt-Cities.html|title=The population of the governorates of Egypt according to census results|work=City Population}} Egyptologists believe that the modern name may derive from the word Ta-ho-ty ({{langx|egy|Tȝ-ḥw.t-Ty}}). Two famous monasteries are located near Tahta, the White Monastery and the Red Monastery. The town has a small but significant Coptic Catholic community.{{Cite book|last=Mayeur-Jaouen|first=Catherine|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1081303684|title=Voyage en Haute-Égypte : prêtres, coptes et catholiques|publisher=CNRS Éditionas|year=2019|isbn=978-2-271-11614-7|location=Paris|oclc=1081303684}} Its most famous resident was the reformist intellectual Rifa'a al-Tahtawi, who was born in Tahta in 1801, and who wrote and translated many books following his trip to Paris in 1826 as the imam and chaplain for the first group of Egyptians whom Mehmet Ali Pasha (Muhammad Ali Pasha) sent to study in western Europe.