North Africa
Egypt
Beheira

Shubra Khit

Shubra Khit is a town in in , which is famous for being the place of the "Battle of Shubra Khit" between the army of Napoleon Bonaparte and the Mamluk cavalry under Murad Bey on July 13, 1798.
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  • Type: City with 30,800 residents
  • Description: place in Beheira Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Shubra Khêt”, “Shubrā Khīt”, and “Shubrākhīt”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shabas al Shuhada and Sais.

Village
Shabas ash-Shuhada is a city in of . In Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt it was known as Kabasa or Gabasson and was a center of the Kabassite nome, which after the Muslim conquest of Egypt was transformed into a kurah. is situated 7 km northeast of Shubra Khit.

Village
was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western on the branch of the Nile, known by the ancient Egyptians as Sꜣw. It was the provincial capital of Sap-Meh, the fifth nome of and became the seat of power during the Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt and the Saite Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt during the Late Period. is situated 9 km southeast of Shubra Khit.

Shubra Khit

Latitude
31.02854° or 31° 1′ 43″ north
Longitude
30.71307° or 30° 42′ 47″ east
Population
30,800
Elevation
8 metres (26 feet)
Open location code
8G3G2PH7+C6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 3235552557
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
349058
Wiki­data ID
Q5600888
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Zulu—“Shubra Khit” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شبراخيت”
  • Bengali: “সোব্রা খিট”
  • Catalan: “Shubrakhit”
  • Catalan: “Xubrakhit”
  • Chinese: “巴希尔”
  • Danish: “Shubra Khit”
  • Dutch: “Shubra Khit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شبراخيت”
  • Finnish: “Shubra Khit”
  • French: “Bataille de Chebreisse”
  • French: “Chebreiss”
  • French: “Chobrâkhyt”
  • German: “Shubra Khit”
  • Greek: “Σούμπρα Κιτ”
  • Gujarati: “શુબ્રા ખિટ”
  • Indonesian: “Shubra Khit”
  • Italian: “Shubra Khit”
  • Japanese: “スブラフィト”
  • Kannada: “ಶುಬ್ರಾ ಖಿತ್”
  • Latvian: “Šubra Kita”
  • Lithuanian: “Šubra Kitas”
  • Malay: “Shubra Khit”
  • Marathi: “शुब्रा खाट”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shubra Khit”
  • Persian: “شبراخیت”
  • Polish: “Shubra Khit”
  • Polish: “Szubrachit”
  • Russian: “Шубра-Хит”
  • Russian: “Шубрахит”
  • Sinhala: “ශුබ්‍රා ඛිට්”
  • Spanish: “Shubra Khit”
  • Swedish: “Shubra Khit”
  • Tamil: “ஸுப்ரா காஹிட்”
  • Telugu: “షుబ్రా ఖిట్”
  • Thai: “ชุบรอคีต”
  • Thai: “ชูบรา กริท”
  • Turkish: “Shubra Khit”
  • Ukrainian: “Шубра-Хіт”
  • Urdu: “شبرا خیت”
  • Vietnamese: “Shubra Khit”
  • Zulu: “Shubra Khit”

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