Shabas ash-Shuhada | |
Other Name: | ϫⲁⲃⲁⲥⲉⲛ, ϫⲁⲡⲁⲥⲉⲛ |
Native Name: | Arabic: شباس الشهداء |
Pushpin Map: | Egypt |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Label Position: | bottom |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 300 |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Egypt |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Egypt |
Subdivision Type1: | Governorate |
Subdivision Name1: | Kafr el Sheikh |
Population Total: | 32,191 |
Population Blank1 Title: | Ethnicities |
Timezone: | EST |
Utc Offset: | +2 |
Coordinates: | 31.0907°N 30.7475°W |
Shabas ash-Shuhada (from) is a city in Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate of Egypt.
In Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt it was known as Kabasa or Gabasson and was a center of the Kabassite nome, which after the Muslim conquest of Egypt was transformed into a kurah.[1] [2]