Friday, October 21, 2011

History of the Siwa

History of the Siwa
Located 306 km from Marsa Matrouh, known Siwa as the "daughter" and we find this name in a text of knowledge in the temple of Edfu and then released them after the name "Oasis of Amun" and continued with this name until the Ptolemaic era, who called it "Santar" and then called Arab name "Far Oasis" and was inhabited by a group of Berber dialect they speak Alseweh and continued until the Oasis

Amon worship the ancient Egyptian gods, led by the god Amun, until the appearance of Christianity, and began the era of persecution of religious and Christian, but did not spread among people and continued to worship the Egyptian gods, even

Income in the Arab Altaya century AD Since that time Islam entered Siwa not subject to Islamic rule, except in the Fatimid era

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