Qalyub

Qalyub

Qalyub ( _ar. قليوب) is a town in the Al Qalyubiyah governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area, at the start of the Nile Delta. In 1986 its population was 84,413.

Qalyub is the commercial center for a significant agricultural region, and houses the printing press for the Al-Ahram newspaper. It is said to have been built using materials taken from ancient Heliopolis, a few miles away.

On February 13, 2005, Qalyub was the location of a politically significant strike over the benefits and the privatization of the Qalyub Spinning Company.

The "Qalyub virus" is a member of the Bunyaviridae group of vertebrate-infecting viruses.

Transport

Qalyb was the site of the Qalyoub rail crash in August 2006.

References

* [http://www.fallingrain.com/world/EG/12/Qalyub.html FallingRain Map - elevation = 7m]

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