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Qalyub (käl`y

b), town (1986 pop. 84,413), N Egypt, on the Nile River, part of metropolitan Cairo. It is the trade center for a densely populated agricultural region.

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Similar devices for laying the warp were observed at Qalyub in the Nile Delta in the 1990s (Spring 1993) and in Gaza (Palestine) in the 1960s (Weir 1970), where the technique was said to have been imported from Egypt.

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