Manfalūṭ

Manfalut lies near the western bank of the Nile, north of Asyut, amid the cultivated land of Upper Egypt. The medieval traveller Ibn Jubayr noted its markets and praised the quality of the wheat sent from here to Egypt's capital. Ibn Battuta also visited Manfalut in the fourteenth century and described a well-built riverside town. Its fields and markets belonged to the chain of settlements sustained by the Nile Valley.