Saryaqos, Egypt
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| Country | Egypt |
| Governorates of Egypt | Qalyubia Governorate |
| Time zone | UTC+2 (Egypt Standard Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | +3 |
Saryaqos (Egyptian Arabic: سرياقوس pronounced Egyptian Arabic phonology) is a village in the Khanka, Egypt (country subdivision) located in the Qalyubiyya Governorate in egypt, in the northern part of the cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. in 2006, it had a population of 22,805.
Overview
Saryaqos is the village that is Northern agricultural frontier of Cairo and this make it having a cultural influence that can be observed all over Egypt, as there are some traditional foods and drinks bearing the name of Saryaqos, such as (Saryaqosy Coffee) (Egyptian Arabic: قهوة سرياقوسي) ,which is a traditional Egyptian way of making coffee, and some other things that do not necessarily come from that village, but they take a common name for things coming from the northern Egyptian countryside in general.
Politics
Muhammed Abd El-Wahid is representing Saryaqos as part of the Khanka markaz in the Egyptian Parliament in the 2020 elections, And it is now under the rule of the governor of Qalyubia, Abdul Hamid Al-Hajjan.
History
Ancient Egypt
Saryaqos was nothing but a small village and an agricultural area in Ancient Egypt and it was in the southern part of the tenth Nome (Egypt) of ancient Lower Egypt KA Wr (Egyptian language) 32.1 km in the southern east direction from the nome,s capital athribis (Egyptian language).
Middle Ages
The beginning of the prosperity of Saryaqos was in the Egypt in the Middle Ages, especially in the era of the Mamluk Sultanate (Cairo) 1323 AC, and it was mentioned in the manuscripts of the Egyptian historian Al-Maqrizi as he had said:
"The Mamluk Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalwun used to go on hunting trips in Berket Al-Jab (now called Berket El Hajj) area near Saryaqos and once he had a great pain in his stomach that almost killed him he was freezing and he was unable to bear the pain then he vowed to god that he would recover to build in this place a place where God is worshiped, then he returned to the mountain castle, so he stayed in bed for several days, and when he had recovered he went himself with the engineers and streamed a mile away from Saryaqos and built a Khanqah and made in it a hundred retreats for a hundred Sufism and built them a mosque next to it to pray the friday prayer and built a bathroom and a kitchen in it. When the khnaqah was built in the year 725 AH, he went out himself with the princes, judges and Sheikh of the khnaqah, and he distributed food baskets and sixty thousand silver Dirham inside the khnaqah and since then people wanted to live around this khnaqah and built their houses and shops around the khnaqah till it became a large town that they named the Saryaqosec Khnaqah to distinguish it from the rest of the khnaqahs"
And that khnaqah the historian Al-Maqrizi referred to was a center of Saryaqos and then people started calling it al khanka (Egyptian Arabic: الخانكة), but this khnaqah disappeared with the passage of time.and the historian Ibn Taghribirdi talked about palaces that was located there in his book (Al-Nujum Al-Zahira Fi Muluk Misr Wa'l-Qahira) when he mentioned the Sultanate of Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun as he had said:
"Palaces for princes were also built in Saryaqos, and the Sultan’s opinion was that a bay should be dug outside Cairo that ends at Saryaqos, and Water wheel and agricultural facilities were built on it, and boats traveled in it during the days of the Flooding of the Nile flood to bring crops and others to the palaces of the princes and I saw for myself the remains of those palaces that were in Saryaqos and it had been destroyed during the reign of the Sultan Barsbay within the year eight hundred and thirty Islamic calendar, and Prince Soudoun Bin Abdul Rahman took the ruins and built his mosque over it, which was the reason for wiping it out, and it was one of the beauties of the world"
Then Ibn Taghribirdi explained that the palaces were destroyed and became rubble due to the decay of construction in Saryaqos after the reign of the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammad Ibn Qalawun. when he talked about the prince Soudon in his book (Al-Manhal) as he had said:
"he built several buildings in Damascus and established a Sufi school in the khnaqah in Saryaqos, where the sermon is held. And it was completed in the year eight hundred and twenty-six AH, and we went with him to the school, and we found it out in the open, and there was no construction around it except for a little"
Etymology
Saryaqos used to be named Samasem Saryaqos (Egyptian Arabic : سماسم سرياقوس pronounced Egyptian Arabic) and there are no clear known origin to the name of Saryaqos but there are some folk tales about the origin of the name, and the most widespread of them is a story that the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammed Ibn Qalwun was motivating his horse, who was called (Qus), to walk, so he used to tell it (Arabic: سر يا قوس pronounced Arabic phonology) which means (Move on, Qus), but most likely that this story is not true, since the location of the village was called Saryaqos even before the rule of the Sultan Al-Nasir Muhammed Ibn Qalwun.
There are also some villages in Egypt whose name contains the syllable (Qos). Perhaps the name Saryaqos is a copy or a distortion of one of those names, but anyway this theory, like all other theories, remains without any evidence.
References
External links
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