Fayoum were in ancient times are the province of 21 administrative regions of Upper Egypt, were calledMc rt-pht Lower means the tree, and she and the province 20 Tkonan County and one before that are independent of each other.
Fayoum has been designated in the name of (Mir ware) any great sea day was inundated all low Fayoum, and then called constructed sdt sdt Any land lake learned to build on land reclamation Bastkhalasa from the waters of the lake, and in the Greco-Roman period dubbed (Chrikodelloboli) crocodile presence in the region and who was worshiped under the name of God casting. And was also called name (Brsopk) any house god Sobek, and change the name to (Arsinoe) in honor of the sister of the wife of Ptolemy II Philadelphus,
They out Damutiqi P3-ym Any PII Yum meaning painful or lake that mutated by day and added to the definite Arabic after the Arab conquest in addition to the definite Egyptian became Fayoum.
Runnels: The Runnels of the most important features of Fayoum province, where it is the only province in Egypt, which has this kind of Runnels, and fulfill their role in spreading greenery and agriculture throughout the Fayoum has been developed as an emblem of Fayoum.
Lake Qarun:
Associated lake on Fayoum since its inception, and the area they cover the whole area of the region, which is one of the oldest natural monuments in the world.
Logo design consists aware Fayoum Barmaids and the vulture and the Egyptian flag as the Fayoum, one of the regions of Egypt, which is proud of belonging to the motherland. Surrounds the logo under the yellow flag to the desert that surrounds Fayoum from everywhere. Take green flag ground relative to the dominant agricultural capacity in Fayoum.
Celebrates Fayoum in the fifteenth of the month of March of each year anniversary of national honor to reconsider people Fayoum against the British occupation during the 1919 revolution led by Hamad Pasha valiant, also celebrates this history as a memory to start implementing the project resistance schistosomiasis and completion of the draft and Wadi Rayan solve the problem of drainage in Lake Qarun, as and that this date falls in the month of spring where nature in Fayoum in pompous analyzed.
Multiple potential attractions in Fayoum to different elements which affords many types of Tourism in Fayoum environmental tourism and safari tourism, cultural tourism and leisure tourism.
The most important tourist attractions in Fayoum are:
** Temperate climate.
** Site near Cairo on the tourist itinerary.
** Before human and pre-civilization, and the effects Pharaonic, Roman, Coptic and Islamic.
* Provide possibilities of cultural and folklore Fayoumi.
* Environmental purity
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