Sakha, also known by the ancient name of Xois (Arabic: سخا, Koinē Greek: Ξόις, Coptic: ⲥϦⲱⲟⲩ[1] Strabo xvii.

This hypothesis, however, is not shared by most Egyptologists today, who believe that the Fourteenth Dynasty was based in Avaris in the eastern Delta.

p. 214) identified Xois's remains at modern-day Sakha (Sakkra), which is the Arabic version of the Coptic Sḫeow and Egyptian sḫw (Niebuhr, Travels, vol.

By the time of Ibn Duqmaq, it was no longer the provincial capital, but it remained a large city that lent its name to a major sub-district of the province.

[6] The 1885 Census of Egypt recorded Sakha as a nahiyah under the district of Kafr El Sheikh in Gharbia Governorate; at that time, the population of the town was 950 (480 men and 470 women).

[7] Christian tradition holds that Sakha was one of the places that the family of Jesus visited during their Flight into Egypt.