Milig (Arabic: مليج Milīj) is a village in Monufia Governorate of Egypt, in the Nile Delta. It is a short distance northeast of Shibin El Kom.

Milig
مليج
Milīj
Ibyar is located in Nile Delta
Ibyar
Ibyar
Location in Egypt
Ibyar is located in Egypt
Ibyar
Ibyar
Ibyar (Egypt)
Coordinates: 30°35′45″N 31°02′14″E / 30.59574°N 31.0373°E / 30.59574; 31.0373[1]
Country Egypt
GovernorateMonufia
Elevation56 ft (17 m)
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)

Milig's souk meets for three days each week. One day is devoted entirely to the sale of cheese and butter ("suq al-gibna"), with women making up a majority of the merchants and customers, and the other two are for groceries and goods like clothes and kitchen utensils.[2]

The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Milig (as Melig) as a nahiyah in its own district in Monufia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 7,729 (3,903 men and 3,826 women).[3]

The 10th-century geographer al-Muqaddasi listed Milig (as Malīj) among the cities in the Egyptian district of Ar-Rif.[4] A century later, in the 1060s and 70s, the Nile Delta was ravaged by Berber raids as well as famine. A Jewish legal document dated to September 1075, after the raiders had been driven out under Badr al-Jamali, records that Berbers of the Lewata tribe had sacked and looted Malij during the chaotic preceding years.[5]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Geonames.org. Milīj". Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  2. ^ Mohieddin, Mohamed M. (1998). "Rural Periodic Markets in Egypt". In Hopkins, Nicholas S.; Westergaard, Kirsten (eds.). Directions of Change in Rural Egypt. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. p. 301. ISBN 977-424-663-2. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  3. ^ Egypt min. of finance, census dept (1885). Recensement général de l'Égypte. p. 216. Retrieved 21 July 2020.
  4. ^ al-Muqaddasī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad (1897). Ahsānu-t-taqāsīm Fī Maʻrifati-l-aqālīm. p. 318. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
  5. ^ Cohen, Mark R. (1980). Jewish Self-Government in Medieval Egypt. Princeton: Princeton University Press. pp. 58–59. ISBN 9781400853588. Retrieved 2 August 2020.