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About Ţūkh
Toukh (Arabic: طوخ, Coptic: ⲧⲱϩⲉ, lit. 'chapel') is a city located in Qalyubia Governorate, Egypt. It is located on the Cairo-Alexandria agricultural road. Toukh is also a county that consists of many small towns. These towns include Tant al Gazirah and Berhoum.
From the Wikipedia article Toukh (this version), under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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History
Toukh is one of the ancient villages, as it was mentioned in the name of Tukh al-Majwal in the book “The Laws of Diwans of Asaad ibn Matati from the works of Al Sharqiya”, which is the name given to it in the Salahi Rock that was conducted by the Ayyubid Sultan Al-Nasir Salah Al-Din in the year 572 AH / 1176 AD. The book, 'The Masterpiece in the Names of the Egyptian Countries', by Ibn Al-Jiaan, enumerated the Egyptian villages after the Nasserite rock, which was carried out by the Mamluk Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad in 715 AH / 1315AD. In the Ottoman era, its name was in Tarabya in the year 933 AH / 1527 AD, which was conducted by the Ottoman governor Suleiman Pasha Al-Khadem in the era of the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent, Tugh Mujul within the villages of Wilayat Qaliubiya, and in the date 1228 AH / 1813 CE, which counted the villages of Egypt after the survey carried out by Muhammad Ali Pasha in the name of Tokh Malak within the villages of the Directorate of Qaliubiya.
From the History section of Toukh on Wikipedia, under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Getting there and nearby towns
Cairo International Airport (CAI) is the nearest airport with scheduled flights listed in OpenStreetMap, 34 km away.
- Quwaysinā 24 km north, about 24 min by car
- Shubrā al Khaymah 26 km south, about 26 min by car
- Al-'Ubūr 30 km southeast, about 30 min by car
- Cairo 33 km south, about 33 min by car
- Giza 38 km south, about 38 min by car
- Zagazig 39 km northeast, about 39 min by car
- New Cairo 44 km southeast, about 44 min by car
- Tanta 52 km north, about 52 min by car
- Al ‘Āshir min Ramaḑān 53 km east, about 53 min by car
- Ḩalwān 58 km south, about 58 min by car
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