Inshas

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30°22′52″N 31°27′30″E / 30.38111°N 31.45833°E / 30.38111; 31.45833

Inshas
أنشاص الرمل
Village
Inshas is located in Egypt
Inshas
Inshas
Coordinates: 30°22′52″N 31°27′30″E / 30.38111°N 31.45833°E / 30.38111; 31.45833
Country Egypt
GovernorateSharqia Governorate
MarkazBilbeis
Time zoneUTC+2 (EET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+3 (EEST)

Inshas (Arabic: أنشاص الرمل) is a village located in Bilbeis, Sharqia Governorate, 60 kilometers east of Cairo, Egypt.[1]

It holds the first experimental nuclear reactor to be operated in Egypt ETRR-1 as well as the second experimental reactor ETRR-2, the Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority Experimental Farm, unauthorized IAEA.[2]

Following the creation of the Arab League in March 1945, Inshas held the first Arab League Summit in May 1946.[3]

Inshas hosts the Thunderbolt School, a training facility for the Egyptian army's El-Sa'ka Forces.[4] The facility was used to train Palestinian commandos (fedayeen), including members of the Arab Nationalist Movement between 1962 and 1965.[5]

The village has a mosque, named for King Farouk I and managed by the Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments.[1] Construction of the mosque begun in 1923, during the reign of Farouk's predecessor, King Fuad I, and was completed in preparation for the 1946 Arab Summit.

References

  1. 1 2 "مسجد الملك فاروق بالشرقية". Egyptian Ministry of Religious Endowments (in Arabic). Retrieved 23 August 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ "Irradiated sewage sludge for application to cropland" (PDF). IAEA. October 2002. pp. 76, 84.
  3. ↑ "League summit to tackle major threats". Arab Times Online. 15 April 2018.
  4. ↑ "Egyptian Special Operations Forces: A Thunderbolt Introduction". Egypt Defence Review. 4 July 2017. Archived from the original on 20 February 2024. Retrieved 23 August 2025.
  5. ↑ Sayigh, Yezid (1997). Armed Struggle and the Search for State. Oxford: Clarendon Press. p. 110. ISBN 0-19-829265-1.