Damietta

How to use Damietta in a sentence

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

  Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt | R. Talbot Kelly

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

  A History of Mediaeval Jewish Philosophy | Isaac Husik

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

  Letters from Palestine | J. D. Paxton

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

  Early Travels in Palestine | Arculf et al.

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

  Chatterbox, 1906 | Various