El Hiba
El Hiba is the modern name of the ancient Egyptian city of Tayu-djayet, an ancient nickname meaning "their walls" in reference to the massive enclosure walls built on the site.- Type: Locality with 16,200 residents
- Description: village in Beni Suef Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Hibah”, “Al Ḩībah”, “Al-Ḥībah”, “El Ḥîba”, and “El Hibba”
El Hiba
- Categories: city, archaeological site, human settlement, and village in Egypt
- Location: Red Sea, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“El Hiba” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحيبة، بنى سويف”
- Arabic: “الحيبة، بني سويف”
- Arabic: “الحيبة”
- Asturian: “El Hiba”
- Catalan: “Teudjoi”
- Chinese: “安居戎波利斯”
- Dutch: “El Hiba”
- Dutch: “El-Hiba”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الحيبة”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة الحيبه”
- Finnish: “Ankyropolis”
- French: “El Hibeh”
- German: “al-Hiba”
- German: “El-Hibe”
- German: “Ḥība”
- Greek: “Ελ Χίμπα”
- Hebrew: “אל-חיבה”
- Italian: “El-Hiba”
- Japanese: “エル・ヒバ”
- Persian: “الحیبه، مصر”
- Polish: “Hibe”
- Portuguese: “El Hiba”
- South Azerbaijani: “الحیبه، میصر”
- Swahili: “El Hiba”
- Turkish: “El Hibe”
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