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Helwan
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Helwan, also spelled Hilwan or Hulwan is a city in Egypt on the bank of the Nile river, opposite the ruins of Memphis, with a population of about 230,000 (1989). It is a southern suburb of Cairo.
Local industry includes iron, steel, textiles and cement. The area has hot sulphur springs, an astronomical observatory, the Helwan University and a burial chamber discovered in 1946. It is the terminus of the Cairo's light rail Metro Line 1
The Khedivial Astronomical Observatory was built here 1903-1904, and was used to observe Halley's comet. The Behman Hospital Egypt's oldest and largest private psychiatric clinic was built there in 1939.
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