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Gharbiya

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Gharbiya

Governorate in northern Egypt, in the River Nile delta between the Damietta and Rosetta branches; area 1,942 sq km/750 sq mi; population (1995 est) 3,437,000. The capital is Tanta. Gharbiya is primarily a cotton-growing region and contains some of the largest spinning and weaving plants in Egypt.



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For instance, people from Al-Ghareeb district in Suez were transferred to Beni Suef, people from Al-Monakh district in Port Said were transferred to Gharbiya, and people from Abu-Sultan were transferred to Daqahliya.
War and forced migration in Egypt: the experience of evacuation from ... by Hopkins, Nicholas S. / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
Amani Qandil, "Al-Tayar al-Islami fi al-Niqabat al-Mihaniya al-Misriya" [The Islamic Current in the Egyptian Professional Syndicates], in al-Islam wa al-Hadatha: Ru'y Islamiya wa Gharbiya `an Misr wa Turkiya [Islam and Modernity: Islamic and Western Views on Egypt and Turkey] (Cairo: Yafa Center for Studies and Research, 1993), 157-83.
State-society relations in Egypt: restructuring the political by Ismail, Salwa / Arab Studies Quarterly (ASQ)
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