Qalyub

Qalyub is a city in the Qalyubia Governorate of Egypt, in the northern part of the Cairo metropolitan area at the start of the Nile Delta. It contains both a rural and an urban markaz. Its population was 84,413 in 1986 and grew to 106,804 by 2006, faster than average. The name of the city is said to come from the Greek personal name Calliope, the Muse of epic poetry. Qalyub is the commercial center of a significant agricultural region, and some records indicate that it has had a regular farmer's market for close to one thousand years.