Dekernes

Dekernes is a town in the centre of the Dakahlia Governorate of Egypt, about 20 kilometres east of Mansoura, the governorate capital, and the main city of the markaz that carries its name. The name is older than Arabic and its exact origin is unknown, though the scholar Czapkiewicz suggested that it derives, through Greek and Coptic forms, from an Ancient Egyptian phrase meaning land of Qerner, an epithet of Osiris. The town has one of the oldest high schools in Egypt, Ali Mubarak School, built in 1911, and the surrounding markaz includes many small villages grouped in local units such as Demouh, Demeshalt and Negeir. Its climate is hot desert under the Koppen-Geiger system, and in 2018 the Egyptian government earmarked money for infrastructure projects in the town.