Saqultah

Saqultah is a small Upper Egyptian city near Akhmim, on the east bank of the Nile in Sohag Governorate. It is described as one of the oldest villages in Egypt, originally named Saqiyat Qultah, meaning the water wheels of Kollouthos, with a Coptic form of the name. The name appears in the Laws of Court by the Egyptian writer Al-Asaad bin Mamati, and the geographical dictionary Mu'jam al-Buldan describes Qulta as a good village known as Saqiya Qalta in Upper Egypt, east of the Nile, near Akhmim. The name was shortened from Saqiyat Qultah to Saqultah by joining the first half of the first word to the second half of the second, as recorded in calendar books of 1231 AH, which is 1815 to 1816, and the 1877 tables of the Ministry of Finance mention it as Saqlath and the Arabs.