When the arrival of Bonaparte with his campaign in started status of a city in decline has managed the French to take over the city and thus gave it to Murad Bey, who dropped the status of Gerga and status as a state Ottoman until they came out of Egypt, which was followed by a period of unrest pay later Muhammad Ali Pasha ruled Egypt and was able to eliminate the Mamluks in 1815 and now has the upper hand in redrawing the map of Egyptian set up Muhammad Ali in Gerga Directorate large part of the directorates of Egypt and happened upon what is going to change within the district and has shrunk the size after that they include the South and the Nile Valley from Nubia in the south to Assiut north now include only to several cities and villages Kthta and Balyana and Soehaa except that the value of those families and status did not prevent the government at that time that you move the headquarters of the Directorate and the security forces representative of the government to the village Soehaa adjacent to the deteriorating status of Gerga more and more to become at the end of 1960, a center of Sohag Governorate Gerga now commercial city in the foundation changed area and that is by far the largest cities of the province and south-level Note: This may be because the name of Jirga to Jrgio Princess Pharaonic or to St. George one of the martyrs of the era of Roman persecution, and that did not make sure of the exporters, but certainly Jirga was called Dgerja until the end of the eighteenth century.