El-Bahnasa

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El-Bahnasa is a modern Egyptian town in Minya Governorate best known as the site of ancient Oxyrhynchus, a major Greco-Roman city famed for its papyrus discoveries.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
El-Bahnasa canonical 1
el-Bahnasa 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (35)

Predicate Object
instanceOf populated place ⓘ
town ⓘ
administrativeDivision markaz of Beni Mazar ⓘ
archaeologicalFindType documentary papyri ⓘ
early Christian texts ⓘ
literary papyri ⓘ
archaeologicalPeriod Byzantine period ⓘ
Hellenistic period ⓘ
Roman period ⓘ
climate hot desert climate ⓘ
continent Africa ⓘ
country Egypt ⓘ
governorateCapital Minya ⓘ
hasArchaeologicalExcavationsBy British archaeologists ⓘ
Egyptian archaeologists ⓘ
Italian archaeologists ⓘ
hasHistoricalSite Oxyrhynchus ⓘ
hasNearbyAncientCity Per-Medjed ⓘ
linked to: Pr-Medjed
historicalRegion Middle Egypt ⓘ
linked to: central Egypt
knownFor Greco-Roman archaeological remains ⓘ
papyrus discoveries ⓘ
site of ancient Oxyrhynchus ⓘ
languageSpoken Arabic ⓘ
locatedIn Minya Governorate ⓘ
Upper Egypt ⓘ
locatedNorthOf Asyut ⓘ
linked to: Assiut
locatedOnRiver Nile ⓘ
locatedSouthOf Cairo ⓘ
majorReligion Islam ⓘ
modernNameOf Oxyrhynchus ⓘ
partOf Arab Republic of Egypt ⓘ
linked to: Egypt
religiousHeritage Coptic Christian sites ⓘ
timeZone Eastern European Time ⓘ
timeZoneDST Eastern European Summer Time ⓘ
transportConnection road network of Minya Governorate ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Oxyrhynchus → modernSettlementName → El-Bahnasa ⓘ
Pr-Medjed → modernSiteName → el-Bahnasa ⓘ
linked to: El-Bahnasa