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

Inshas

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Inshas
أنشاص الرمل
Village
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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.

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