A region or province in ancient Egypt, especially a fertile region in the Nile Delta.
From Arabic 'al-Beheira,' the name of a governorate in northern Egypt. The word comes from Coptic and Arabic roots referring to a lake or wetland region.
Beheira is the most densely populated governorate in Egypt today and was the breadbasket of ancient Egypt—the Nile Delta's rich farmland fed empires, and this place name reminds us that geography literally writes history.
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