Luxor dubbed the city cent door or sun city formerly known as the good, is the capital of Egypt in the Pharaonic era, is located on the banks of the Nile River, which divides into two land east-west and the mainland, which is the capital of the province of Luxor in southern Egypt, located between latitudes 25-36 north, 32-33 in the east, and away from the Egyptian capital, Cairo, about 670 km, and the northern city of Aswan about 220 km, and south of the city of Qena, about 56 km, and south-west of the city of Hurghada about 280 km, is bounded to the north qus and the province of Qena, and South Centre Edfu and Aswan, and on the east side of the Red Sea province, to the west Armant center and the province of New Valley, the nearest sea ports of the city is the port of Safaga, and the nearest airport is to Luxor International Airport.
Of the Luxor area of about 416 square kilometers, and the space inhabited is 208 square kilometers, with a population of approximately 487 896 people, according to the census of 2010, the divided city of Luxor administratively into five Heachat are legitimate Awwamiyya, ancient Karnak, the new Karnak, Qurna, facility Amari and six cities and villages affiliates are El Bayadeya, lentoids nautical, lentoids before me, Tod, Albgdadaa, Hubail, is said to be shorter, with approximately one-third of the world's monuments, it also includes many of the monuments of Pharaonic old, divided into eastern and western Albrain of the city, featuring the mainland east of Luxor Temple, Temple Karnak, and rams through the link between the two temples, and the Luxor Museum, and the western mainland fitted Valley of the Kings, the Temple of Deir el-Bahari, and Valley of the Queens, Deir el-Medina, and the Temple of the Ramesseum, and a statue of Memnon.
Because the founding of the city of Thebes to the Fourth Dynasty around 2575 BC, and even the Middle Kingdom were not good more than just a collection of huts Statistics contiguous, though, so they were used as a cemetery for the burial of the dead, it was buried where provincial governors since the era of the old state and Then, then it became the city of Thebes later in the capital of Egypt in the eleventh Egyptian dynasty at the hands of Pharaoh first Montuhotep, which has succeeded in uniting the country again after the chaos transmitting in Egypt in the era of the first decay, and has been the city of Thebes, capital of the Egyptian state until the fall of the rule Pharaohs and the family Thirty-first at the hands of the Persians 332 BC.
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