Damietta

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

British Dictionary definitions for Damietta

Damietta

/ (ˌdæmɪˈɛtə) /

noun

a town in NE Egypt, in the Nile delta: important medieval commercial centreArabic name: Dumyat

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