Sakha

• Main Author: Stewart, Randall
• Other Authors: Atiya, Aziz Suryal, 1898-1988 (editor-in-chief)
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Macmillan 1991
• Subjects: Sakhā (Egypt); Egypt; Nile River; Greek language; Coptic language; Cities and towns; Athanasius; Saint; Patriarch of Alexandria; d. 373.; Bishops; Martyrs; John Colobos; ca. 339-409; Synaxarion; Calendar; Randall; Sakha
• Online Access: http://ccdl.libraries.claremont.edu/u?/cce,1696

(CE:2087b-2088a) SAKHA, town located in the northern Delta of Egypt about 1.5 miles (2 km) south of Kafr al-Shayk in the Gharbiyyah province. The town was known in Greek as XÒij (Xois) and in Coptic as cekoou (Sekoou). A reference in one of ATHANASIUS' letters to the bishop of Sakha makes it cl...