Dairut (Coptic: ⲧⲉⲣⲱⲧ Terōt pronounced [təˈroːt]) is a city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Asyut Governorate. Dairut’s location is where the Nile divides; a branch wanders off and eventually ends up in the Faiyum. The centre city of Dayrout is the largest of the central towns of the Assiut governorate, as it contains many villages, numbering about 38 significant villages.
The villages are differentiated into villages of sunrise and sunset (eastern and western villages) according to the location of the Abrahamic Canal, which divides Dairut into two parts.
Location of Dairut town
Dairut is a city in Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Asyut Governorate. The centre of Dayrout is situated in the north of Assiut governorate, bordered on the north by the Mallawi centre of Minya governorate, on the south by the Qusiyah centre, on the east by the Eastern Desert, and on the west by the Western Desert.
Etymology
The Dayrut Center has clear historical imprints, as it participated in the events of the 1919 revolution when the people confronted an English ship on its way to Assiut to quell the revolution there, and they killed a large number of Englishmen. Its old name is “Tirobi”, meaning the garden or the nursing mother, including “Tirobisurban”, now known as Dayrout Al-Sharif. Tiroubi is a word that was called in the era of the Ayyubid state in connection to “the Sharif, the Fortress of the state, Thalab bin Ali Al-Jaafari” residing in this town.
History
A revolutionary movement was launched against the Mamluk state, and the Arab tribes participated. Still, Izz al-Din Aybak, who established a massacre led by him in 651 AD, eliminated him. When the Dayrout Aqueduct was established in 1871 AD, a small town was built next to it, gradually expanding until it became the current Dayrout.
Administrative division Dayrut al-Sharif
- Banoub Zahr al-Jamal
- Kom Buha North
- Dashlout
- Nazlat Saw
- Saw Faraj Mahmud
- Saw
- Kom Angasheh
- Western Hawta
- Jurf Sarhan
- Bawit
- Sunbo
- Awaja
- Masara
- Nazlat Sarhan
- Saw
- Bani Yahya Bahri
- Al Awamir
- Shalash
- Al Mandara
- Nazlat Abdullah
- Al-Mutawa
- Nazlat Bilal
- Qalanish
- Mazina
- Saraqna
- Nazlat Saraqna
- Zawiya Harun
- Abu Al Hadar
- Amchoul
- Abu Jabal Bahri Riyadh Villag
- Kodia Al Islam
- The village of Sheikh Musaed,
- Kharfa
- Al-Nahiya,
- Biblau,
- Ezbet Awlad Hamza,
- and Al-Houta Al-Sharaqouh.
The inhabited area is 218.28 km2 or 12.9% of the inhabited place in the governorate. The total population reached 561,372 thousand people in 2013, while the total area of the centre reached 218.82 km2, representing 12.9 km2 of the total area of the governorate.
Activities in Dairut town
Among the most important crops in the centre and city of Dayrout are cotton, wheat, sorghum, sorghum, and fava beans.
Attractions
In addition to this, many tourist attractions are from all historical eras. From the Pharaonic period, there are paintings of the borders of Akhenaten’s city in Al-Hawita Al-Sharqiya, from the Coptic era, the monuments of Bawit, from the Islamic era, the Abu Al-Ayoun Mosque in Dachlot, and from the age to the modern day of Dayrut Aqueduct. Among the notables of the Dayrout Center are Ahmed Pasha Qurashi, the writer Muhammad Mostagab, and Sheikh Ibrahim Abu Al-Ayoun.
