Abu Hummus

Abu Hummus, also written Abu Humus, Abu Hommos or Abou Homs, is a town in Beheira Governorate, Egypt, and the administrative centre of the markaz of the same name. Its older name was Shubra Bar or Shunbar, which one scholar derives from the Greek Chabriou Kome, named after Chabrias, while another derives the modern name from an Egyptian phrase meaning which hides what is in it. The town lies midway between Alexandria and the western branch of the Nile Delta, south of Lake Idku, between the Cairo-Alexandria Agricultural Road and the El-Mahmoudeya Canal. It has a local court, a city town hall and a railway station, and it is known as the place where the Nakhla meteorite fell in 1911. In 2007 the markaz had an estimated population of 348,000.