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| area_footnotes           = <ref name="citypopulation">{{cite web |title=Ṣidfa (Markaz, Egypt) - Population Statistics, Charts, Map and Location |url=https://www.citypopulation.de/en/egypt/admin/asy%C5%ABt/2507__%E1%B9%A3idfa/ |website=www.citypopulation.de |access-date=18 March 2023}}</ref>
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'''Sidfa''' ({{Langx|ar|صدفا}}, from {{Langx|egy|ḥw.t-sḥtp.t}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Peust |first=Carsten |title=Die Toponyme vorarabischen Ursprungs im modernen Ägypten |url=http://www.peust.de/ortsnamen_original.pdf |page=85}}</ref>) is a town in [[Egypt]].<ref>{{cite book|title=Buhūth Al-Qāhirah Fī Alʾulūm Al-ijtimaʾīyah|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AavrAAAAMAAJ|year=1982|publisher=American University in Cairo}}</ref> It is located near the city of [[Abnub]] in the [[Asyut Governorate]]. It was known in antiquity by the [[Greeks]] as '''Hisopis'''.<ref name= Brugsch735-736>{{cite book |last1=Brugsch |first1=Heinrich |title=Dictionnaire géographique de l'ancienne Egypte: contenant par ordre alphabétique la nomenclature comparée des noms propres géographiques qui se rencontrent sur les monuments et dans les papyrus. |date=1879 |publisher=J. C. Hinrichs |pages=735–736 |url=https://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/brugsch1879/0755/image}}</ref>
==See also==
{{portal|Egypt}}
* [[List of cities and towns in Egypt]]
==References==
{{Reflist}}
{{Cities of Egypt}}
[[Category:Populated places in Asyut Governorate]]
[[Category:Former populated places in Egypt]]
[[Category:Cities in Egypt]]
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