What is "heliopolis"

Heliopolis (; , Hēlioúpolis, "City of the Sun" or "City of Helios"; Egyptian: ỉwnw) was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt, the capital of the 13th or Heliopolite Nome of Lower Egypt. It is now found in the suburb of Ayn Shams (, literally "Well of the Sun") at the north-east edge of Cairo.

The ancient Egyptian cult center Iunu, named "On" in the Hebrew bible, was renamed Heliopolis by the Greeks in recognition of the fact that the sun god Ra ( Helios in Greek) presided there. Iunu is mentioned in the Pyramid Text as the "House of Ra".

Heliopolis has been occupied since the Predynastic Period, with extensive building campaigns during the Old and Middle Kingdoms. Today it is mostly destroyed; its temples and other buildings were used for the construction of medieval Cairo. Most information about the ancient city comes from textual sources.

The only surviving remnant of Heliopolis is the Temple of Re- Atum obelisk located in Al-Masalla in Al-Matariyyah, Cairo. It was erected by Senusret I of the Twelfth dynasty, and still stands in its original position. The high red granite obelisk weighs 120 tons (240,000 lbs).

Heliopolis ( Greek for "Sun City") usually refers to one of two ancient cities:

• Heliopolis (Ancient Egypt), the modern Ayn Shams, Egypt (also known as Heliopolis in Augustamnica)
• Heliopolis (Syria), the modern Baalbek, Lebanon (also known as Heliopolis in Phoenice)

Heliopolis may also refer to:

Heliopolis (, , , "New Egypt") was a suburb outside Cairo, Egypt, which has since merged with Cairo as a district of the city and is one of the more affluent areas of Cairo. It was established in 1905 by the Heliopolis Oasis Company headed by the Belgian industrialist Baron Empain and by Boghos Nubar, son of the Egyptian Prime Minister Nubar Pasha. It is the location of the Cairo International Airport.

Heliópolis (or Cidade Nova Heliópolis) is a favela in the district of Sacomã, in the southeast area of São Paulo, Brazil. This is a neighbourhood of middle, lower middle and lower economic class populations. There are avenues of trees in some parks.

Heliopolis is a second album of Sweden based Greek musician Jannis Tzikas. The album was officially released in 2006.

Heliopolis is an utopistic or dystopian novel by Ernst Jünger published in 1949. In the fictional city of Heliopolis the henchmen of a Proconsul and a Landvogt (“country master” or “land reeve”) fight each other. Commander Lucius de Geer belongs to the staff of the Proconsul, but he stands more and more aloof these inner fights. Finally he leaves Heliopolis. The novel connects speculative fiction with philosophic excursions and historical allusions.

The novel takes place in the future at a time not exactly given. Heliopolis is described as a metropolis in the Mediterranean. It controls enormous areas and regions. The names of the countries in the novel indicate, that Jünger did not want to imply a specific location. In Greek mythology the Hesperides are regions in the far west of the then known world, here they are new discovered areas not completely explored. Also the "Burgenland" ("Castle County"), Asturia, the Parsi and the Mauretanians do not really match existing countries or people of this or similar name. They rather stand for different political directions or systems.

Jünger readopts several names and topics from his earlier novel On the Marble Cliffs like the Landvogt and the Mauretanians, and would again use several aspects of Heliopolis later in Eumeswil. Eumeswil shows a fictional world based on Heliopolis carrying on the developments described here.

Heliopolis is a 2009 Egyptian independent musical documentary film by Ahmad Abdalla that tells the story of a group of young people during a winter day in the Cairo suburb of Heliopolis. Heliopolis is Ahmad Abdalla's debut feature film and starring Khaled Abol Naga.

Heliopolis is a 2009 novel by the British author James Scudamore. It is set in the city and surrounding areas of contemporary São Paulo, Brazil, and follows the story of a young, favela-born man, Ludo dos Santos. The book was nominated for the 2009 Man Booker Prize and is Scudamore's second novel.

Heliopolis (1936–1959) was a British thoroughbred racehorse and Champion sire.