Sohag Govrenorate

Sohag Govrenorate (Arabic: ‏محافظة سوهاج‎ Muḥāfaẓat Sawhāǧ) is ane o the govrenorates o Egyp. It is locatit in the sooth o the kintra (Upper Egyp), an covers a stretch o the Nile Valley. Syne 1960, its caipital haes been the ceety o Sohag. Prior tae that, the caipital wis the ceety o Girga an the name o the govrenorate wis Girga Govrenorate.^[1]

Sohag Govrenorate on the map o Egypt

Ceeties

• Akhmim (Ipu or Khent-Min or Khemmis or Panopolis)
• el-Balyana
• Dar el-Salam
• Girga (Tjeny or Thinis)
• Juhayna
• el-Mansha (Ptolemais Hermiou)
• el-Maragha
• Sakulta
• Sohag
• Tahta
• Tima
• el-Usayrat

Ither important sites

• Abydos (Abedju)
• Apollonos Polis (Kom Isfaht)
• Beit Khallaf
• el-Hawawish
• Hut-Repyt (Athribis or Wannina)
• Kom Ishqaw (Aphrodito)
• el-Salamuni
• Tjebu (Djew-Qa or Antaeopolis or Qaw el-Kebir)

Monasteries in the Sohag Govrenorate

• Red Monastery
• White Monastery