Shabas ash-Shuhada

Shabas ash-Shuhada (Arabic: شباس الشهداء, from Coptic: ϫⲁⲃⲁⲥⲉⲛ, ϫⲁⲡⲁⲥⲉⲛ, romanized: Jabasen, Japasen) is a city in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate of Egypt.

Shabas ash-Shuhada شباس الشهداء ϫⲁⲃⲁⲥⲉⲛ, ϫⲁⲡⲁⲥⲉⲛ
City
Al-Malha mosque in Shabas
Shabas ash-Shuhada Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 31°5′26.44″N 30°44′51.05″E
Country	Egypt
Governorate	Kafr el Sheikh
Population
• Total	32,191
Time zone	UTC+2 (EST)

In Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt it was known as Kabasa (Ancient Greek: Καβασα) or Gabasson (Ancient Greek: Γαβάσσων) and was a center of the Kabassite nome, which after the Muslim conquest of Egypt was transformed into a kurah.^[1][2]