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Damietta
[ dam-ee-et-uh ]
noun
- a city in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta.
Damietta
/ ˌdæmɪˈɛtə /
noun
- a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centre Arabic nameDumyat
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Today only Rosetta and Damietta remain to give their names to the two branches by which alone the Nile now seeks the sea.
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We find him later in Damietta; we follow him to Tyre and Damascus, but beyond the last city all trace of him is lost.
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The whole coast from east of Damietta to the west of Rosetta, bends like a bow, the convex part being next the Mediterranean.
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From hence we reach Damietta, which is Caphtor, in two days; this place contains about two hundred Jews.
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The Saracens fled at first before the invading army, and the city of Damietta was taken almost without a blow.
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