Assiut is a Middle Egyptian city located on the west bank of the Nile with some 400,000 inhabitants, 375 km south of Cairo. Even in ancient times the place benefited of its strategic location. Also one of the main caravan routes once started in Assiut.
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Assiut has several very interesting mosques, including the remarkable mosque of Galal al-Din al-Asyutiyy and the al-Mujahideen Mosque as well as a number of beautiful churches in the bazaar district el-Qasriyya. Also do not miss to visit one of the numerous caravanserais, for example, the Wikala Schalabi. The building of the as-Slama-secondary school, not far from the Ibrahimiyya Channel houses a museum with Egyptian, Sudanese and Indian exhibits, including some finds of the British Egyptologist William Matthew Flinders Petri (1853-1942). Of interest is also the necropolis of the city, in which graves of various regional leaders can be seen.
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