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Damietta

[ dam-ee-et-uh ]

noun

  1. a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta.


Damietta

/ ˌdæmɪˈɛtə /

noun

  1. a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centre Arabic nameDumyat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

Today only Rosetta and Damietta remain to give their names to the two branches by which alone the Nile now seeks the sea.

We find him later in Damietta; we follow him to Tyre and Damascus, but beyond the last city all trace of him is lost.

The whole coast from east of Damietta to the west of Rosetta, bends like a bow, the convex part being next the Mediterranean.

From hence we reach Damietta, which is Caphtor, in two days; this place contains about two hundred Jews.

The Saracens fled at first before the invading army, and the city of Damietta was taken almost without a blow.

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