See also:

• ESNA, or ESNEH

ESNA, or ESNEH  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of Upper See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt on the W. See also:

• BANK

bank of the See also:

• NILE
• NILE, BATTLE OF THE
• NILE, SOBAT

Nile, 454 M . S.S.E. of See also:

• CAIRO
• CAIRO (Arabic Misr-al-Kahira, or simply Misr)

Cairo by See also:

• RAIL

rail, the railway station being on the opposite See also:

• SIDE
• SIDE (mod. Eski Adalia)

side of the See also:

• RIVER

river . Pop . (1897) 16,000, mostly See also:

• COPTS

Copts . See also:

• ESNA, or ESNEH

Esna, one of the healthiest towns in Egypt, is noted for its manufactures of pottery and its large See also:

• GRAIN (derived through the French from Lat. granum, seed, from an Aryan root meaning " to wear down," which also appears in the common Teutonic word " corn ")

grain and live stock markets . It formerly had a large See also:

• TRADE (O. Eng. trod, footstep, from tredan, to tread; in M. Eng. the forms teed, trod and trade appear, the last in the sense of a beaten track)
• TRADE, BOARD OF

trade with the See also:

• SUDAN (Arabic Bilad-es-Sudan, country of the blacks)

Sudan . A See also:

• CARAVAN (more correctly Karwan)

caravan road to the See also:

• SOUTH
• SOUTH, ROBERT (1634–1716)

south goes through the See also:

• OASIS (Gr. &toss, the name given by Herodotus to the fertile spots in the Libyan desert: it probably represents an Egyptian word, cf. Coptic ouahe, ouih, to dwell, from which the Egyptian Arabic sod is derived)

oasis of Kurkur . The trade, almost stopped by the Mandist See also:

• WARS

Wars, is now largely diverted by railway and steamboat routes . There is, however, considerable See also:

• TRAFFIC

traffic with the oasis of See also:

• KHARGA (WAI1 EL-KHARGA, the outer oasis)

Kharga, which lies almost due See also:

• WEST
• WEST, BENJAMIN (1738-1820)
• WEST, NICHOLAS (1461-1533)

west of the town . Nearly in the centre of the town is the Ptolemaic and See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• TEMPLE
• TEMPLE, FREDERICK (1821-1902)
• TEMPLE, RICHARD
• TEMPLE, SIR RICHARD, BART
• TEMPLE, SIR WILLIAM, BART

temple of the See also:

• RAM
• RAM, PIERRE FRANCOIS XAVIER DE (18o4-1865)

ram-headed See also:

• KHNUM

Khnum, almost buried in rubbish and houses . The interior of the pronaos is accessible to tourists, and contains the latest known hieroglyphic inscription, dating from the reign of See also:

• DECIUS, GAIUS MESSIUS QUINTUS TRAJANUS (2017-251)

Decius (A.D . 249–251) .

With Khnum are associated the goddesses Sati and See also:

• NEITH

Neith . In the neighbourhood are remains of Coptic buildings, including a subterranean See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church (discovered 1895) in the See also:

• DESERT

desert See also:

• HALF

half a mile beyond the limits of cultivation . The name Esna is from the Coptic Sne . By the Greeks the See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place was called Latopolis, from the See also:

• WORSHIP (i.e. " worth-ship," O. Eng. weor8scipe)

worship here of the latus See also:

• FISH (O. Eng. fist, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dutch visch, Ger. Fisch, Goth. fisks, cognate with the Lat. piscis)
• FISH, HAMILTON (1808-1893)

fish . In the persecutions under See also:

• DIOCLETIAN (GAIUs AURELIUS VALERIUS DIOCLETIANUS) (A.D. 245–313)
• DIOCLETIAN, EDICT OF (De Pretiis rerum venalium)

Diocletian A.D . 303, the Christians of Esna, a numerous See also:

• BODY

body, suffered severely . In later times the town frequently served as a place of See also:

• REFUGE

refuge for See also:

• POLITICAL

political exiles . The so-called Esna barrage across the Nile (built 1906–1908) is 30 M. higher up stream at See also:

• EDFU

Edfu .