Upper Egypt

LC control no.	no2021096881
Descriptive conventions	rda
Geographic heading	Upper Egypt *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Geographic subdivision usage	Egypt--Upper Egypt
Variant(s)	Aṣ Ṣaʻīd Egypt, Upper El-Said Es Saʻid Qiblī Miṣr Ṣaʻīd Ṣaʻīd Miṣr Ta-Shemau Ta Shemaw صعيد مصر‎
Other standard no.	Q203751 359888
Associated country	Egypt
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Found in	ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd, Ḥ. all-Zaʻīm fī al-Ṣaʻīd, 1935, 1936 (book is about the travels of Muṣtafa al-Naḥḥās in the Ṣaʻīd [Upper Egypt]) Egypt. Maṣlaḥat al-Misāḥah. Communication map of Upper Egypt, 1955. Wickett, E. For the living and the dead : the funerary laments of Upper Egypt, ancient and modern, 2010. Suryānī, Ṣ. Guide to ancient Coptic churches & monasteries in Upper Egypt, 1990. Upper Egypt : identity and change, ©2004. GEOnet, June 11, 2021 (Upper Egypt (conventional); Aṣ Ṣaʻīd (approved); variants: El-Said, Es Saʻid, Ṣaʻīd Miṣr; region, Egypt, 26°00ʹ00ʺN, 032°00ʹ00ʺE; numerous other places of various types also named Ṣaʻīd) Britannica online, June 11, 2021 (Upper Egypt; region, Egypt; Upper Egypt, Arabic Qiblī Miṣr or al-Ṣaʻīd; geographic and cultural division of Egypt, generally consisting of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N.; it thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam); this division also includes what some scholars term Middle Egypt (from Lisht to Panopolis). In late predynastic times, Upper Egypt constituted a political entity separate from Lower Egypt (the delta region). But Menes (fl. 2900 BCE) joined Upper and Lower Egypt, and each Egyptian king thenceforth had as one of his royal titles "King of Upper and Lower Egypt" (or "He of the Sut-Plant and the Bee"), thus signifying that he was the deified representation of those divisions' unification) Columbia gazetteer online, July 8, 2021: Egypt (under geography: Egypt N of Cairo is often called Lower Egypt and S of Cairo, Upper Egypt) Wikipedia, August 17, 2021: Upper and Lower Egypt (In Egyptian history, the Upper and Lower Egypt period (also known as The Two Lands) was the final stage of prehistoric Egypt and directly preceded the unification of the realm; Ancient Egypt was divided into two regions, namely Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. To the north was Lower Egypt, where the Nile stretched out with its several branches to form the Nile Delta. To the south was Upper Egypt, stretching to Aswan. The terminology "Upper" and "Lower" derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa northwards to the Mediterranean Sea. The two kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt were united c. 3000 BC, but each maintained its own regalia: the hedjet or White Crown for Upper Egypt and the deshret or Red Crown for Lower Egypt) Wikipedia, August 17, 2021: Upper Egypt (Upper Egypt (Arabic: صعيد مصر‎ = Ṣaʻīd Miṣr, shortened to الصعيد = al-Ṣaʻīd; Egyptian: ta shemaw) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the lands on both sides of the Nile that extend downriver between Nubia and Lower Egypt in the north. In ancient Egypt, Upper Egypt was known as "the Land of Reeds" or "the Sedgeland". It is believed to have been united by the rulers of the supposed Thinite Confederacy who absorbed their rival city states during Naqada III and its unification with Lower Egypt ushered in the Early Dynastic period. Both Upper and Lower Egypt became imbedded within the symbolism of the sovereignty in Ancient Egypt such as the Pschent double crown. Upper Egypt remained as a historical distinction even after the classical period) Ancient Egypt wiki, August 17, 2021: Upper and Lower Egypt (Ancient Egypt was divided into two kingdoms, known as Upper and Lower Egypt. The pharaohs were known as rulers of the Two Kingdoms, viz. upper and lower Egypt. While the labeling of "upper" and "lower" might seem counter-intuitive, with Upper Egypt in the south and Lower Egypt in the north, the terminology derives from the flow of the Nile from the highlands of East Africa (upstream) to the Mediterranean Sea (downstream); Upper Egypt was known to the Pharaohs as Ta-Shemau ("Land of Reeds" or "Sedgeland"). This part of the country is a narrow strip of land that extends from the cataract boundaries of modern-day Aswan to the area south of modern-day Cairo. Historically, Upper Egypt's land was more isolated from activities to the north. From around 800 BC to 525 BC, this area was ruled by the High Priestess of Amun (often, this position were held by the same woman))