siwa (Western Desert), oasis about 190 miles (300 km) from Marsa Matruh, to the west of Alexandria, the most westerly of the Egyptian oases and the most easterly point at which people still speak a Berber dialect. C. Belgrave states that at Balad al-Rumi, near Khamisah, he saw Christian ruins with a Coptic cross engraved on a stone, perhaps the remains of a monastery (p. 88).
Siwa (Western Desert)
By René-Georges Coquin, Maurice Martin
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- Monasteries of Northern and Middle EgyptArchaeological Sites and ExcavationsHistorical Cities and Geography
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- René-Georges CoquinMaurice Martin
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- Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
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Belgrave, C. D. Siwa, the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon. London, 1923. RENÉ-GEORGES COQUIN MAURICE MARTIN, S.J.