Goshen

Goshen, that part of ancient Egypt which Pharaoh presented to the kindred of Joseph when they came to sojourn in that country, appears to have lain between the eastern delta of the Nile and the Isthmus of Suez, as far south as the modern Ismailia. The district is generally supposed to have lain round about the Egyptian Kesem (Goshen is Gesem in the Septuagint), a name preserved in the classical Phacus (Pa-Kesem), now Fakoos, about 45 miles S. of Damietta. But in 1885-87 M. Naville tried to prove that Goshen is represented by Saft-el-Henna, 6 miles E. of Zagazig, in the Wady Tumilat. See the Fourth Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund (1888).—The LAND OF GOSHEN was the name given to a part of the Barolong country in Bechuanaland, South Africa, which became in 1884 the seat of a mushroom Boer republic, founded by the maranders who had supported Moshette, the rival of Montsoia in his contest for the headship of the Barolongs. It was, along with the rest of Bechuanaland, declared to be under British protection in September 1885.