Qaşr al Farāfirah, Egypt
مدينة الفرافرة
Qaşr al Farāfirah is a town of 5,000 people in New Valley, Egypt.
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About Qaşr al Farāfirah
The Farafra depression (Arabic: واحة الفرافرة, pronounced [elfɑˈɾɑfɾɑ]) is a 980 km2 (380 sq mi) geological depression, the second largest by size in Western Egypt and the smallest by population, near latitude 27.06° north and longitude 27.97° east. It is in the large Western Desert of Egypt, approximately midway between the Dakhla and Bahariya oases.
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History
Archaeological evidence suggests that Farafra region has been inhabited since late Pleistocene. Farafra was known in ancient Egyptian history at least since the Middle Kingdom. In the Ptolemaic period, the region was under the administration of the Oxyrhynchite nome (19th Upper Egyptian nome).
From the History section of Farafra, Egypt on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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