Damietta

Damietta ( Arabic : ????? ‎ Dumy?? ), cried Damiata or Domyat an aa, is a port an the caipital o the Damietta Govrenorate in Egyp . It is locatit at the intersection atween the Mediterranean Sea an the Nile , aboot 200 kilometres (120 mi) north o Cairo .

History [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

In Auncient Egyp , the ceety wis kent as Tamiat , but it became less important in the Hellenic period efter the construction o Alexandria .

The Abbasids uised Alexandria , Damietta, Aden an Siraf as entry ports tae Indie an the Tang Dynasty o Cheenae . ^[1] Damietta wis an important naval base durin the Abbasid, Tulunid an Fatimid periods. This led tae several attacks bi the Byzantine Empire , maist notably the sack an destruction o the ceety in Mey 853.

Damietta wis again important in the 12t an 13t centuries durin the time o the Crusades . In 1169, a fleet frae the Kinrick o Jerusalem , wi support frae the Byzantine Empire, attacked the port, but it wis defeatit bi Saladin .

Durin preparations for the Fift Crusade in 1217, it wis decidit that Damietta shoud be the focus o attack. Control o Damietta meant control o the Nile, an frae thare the crusaders believed thay wad be able tae conquer Egyp . Frae Egyp thay coud then attack Palestine an recaptur Jerusalem . When the port wis besieged an occupee'd bi Frisian crusaders in 1219, Francis o Assisi arrived tae peaceably negotiate wi the Muslim ruler. In October 1218 reinforcements arrived includin the Legate Pelagius wi the Inglis earls Ranulf o Chester , Saer o Winchester an William Aubigny o Arundel thegither wi ane Odonel Aubigny, Robert Fitzwalter , John Lacy o Chester, William Harcourt an Oliver the illegitimate son o Keeng John . ^[2] In 1221 the Crusaders attemptit tae mairch tae Cairo, but wur destroyed bi the combination o natur an Muslim defenses.

Damietta wis forby the object o the Seivent Crusade , led bi Louis IX o Fraunce . His fleet arrived thare in 1249 an quickly captured the fort, tho he refused tae haund it ower tae the nominal keeng o Jerusalem, tae whom it haed been promised durin the Fift Crusade. Housomeivver, Louis too wis eventually captured an defeatit an wis forced tae gie up the ceety.

Acause o its importance tae the Crusaders, the Mamluk Sultan Baibars destroyed the ceety an rebuilt it wi stranger fortifications a few kilometres frae the river.

Damietta postal code (zip) [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

kornish elnile 34511
el Aser 34512
harit elperka 34513

Monuments [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

Amr Ibn Al-a'as Mosque (Al-Fateh) the 2nt mosque tae be biggit in Egyp an Africae bi the Arabs efter enterin Egyp. It haes been convertit tae a kirk twice durin occupation bi the crusaders an Louis IX o Fraunce 's son Jean Tristan o Fraunce wis baptised bi legate o the Pape in this Mosque.
Al-Matbuly Mosque datin tae Mamluk era.
Al-Maainy Mosque datin tae Al-Naser Mohammed Ibn Qalawon regin.
Al-Bahr Mosque datin tae Ottmon rule era.
Al?Hadidy Mosque in Faraskour 200 year auld.
Tabiet Ahmed Urabi, ruins o Damietta Fort at Ezbet El-Borg.
Al-Radwaniya Mosque datin tae Mamluk era.
The Old Brig " Elkobri Elqadeem" datin tae early 1900s.
Souk Al-Hesba, the auld doun toun, datin tae Abbasi rule era.

Present-day [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

The day, thare is a canal connectin it tae the Nile , which haes made it an important port ance again. The modren ceety haes a population o aboot 1,093,580 (2006). It contains the SEGAS LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) plant, which will ultimately hae a capacity o 9.6 million ton/year throu twa trains. The plant is awned bi Segas, a joint ventur o the Spainyie utility Union Fenosa (40%), Italian ile company Eni (40%) an the Egyptian companies EGAS an EGPC (10% each).The plant is unuisual syne it is no supplee'd frae a dedicatit field, but is supplee'd wi gas frae the Egyptian grid. EMethanex, the Egyptian diveesion o Methanex Corporation a Canadian awned company, is currently biggin a 3600 MTPD methanol plant. Construction is scheduled tae be finished in mid 2010.

Economic activity [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

White Dammiat Cheese ( Domiati ) an ither dairy products that spread in Egyp , Greece , Cyprus , Sudan an Turkey .
Furniture & wid wirk antiques
Pattisiare an Egyptian desserts .
Weavin an claes
Containers transport throu the new port
Fishin

Damietta in cultur [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

A frigate o the Egyptian Navy bought frae US Navy USS Jesse L. Brown (FF-1089) wis renamed the Damyat efter Damietta.
Amietophrynus kassasii (Baha El Din, 1993) "Damietta Toad" ane o the genus Amietophrynus .
It wis visitit bi LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin in 1929.
Seat o the Coptic Orthodox Metropolis o Damietta, Kafr-el-Sheikh, an Bararye, unner jurisdiction o H.E. Metropolitan Bishoy.
The Greek Orthodox bishop wis based in Damietta in the kirk o Agios Nikolaos.

See an aa [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

Notes [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

↑ Donkin, Robin A. (2003). Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans. Diane Publishing Company. ISBN 0871692481 .
↑ Remfry, P.M., (1997). Buckenham Castles, 'The Aubignys and the Fifth Crusade, 1218 to 1221'. ISBN 1-899376-05-4 .

References [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

J. Tolan, St. Francis and the Sultan: The Curious History of a Christian-Muslim Encounter. Oxford: Oxford Varsity Press, 2009. [beuk aboot Francis o Assisi's mission tae the Egyptian Sultan Al-Kamil at Damietta in 1219]

Freemit airtins [ eedit | eedit soorce ]

Falling Rain Genomics, Inc. "Geographical information on Dumyat, Egypt" . Retrieved 22 Mairch 2008 .

Coordinates : 31°25′N 31°49′E / 31.417°N 31.817°E / 31.417; 31.817

[1] Donkin, Robin A. (2003). Between East and West: The Moluccas and the Traffic in Spices Up to the Arrival of Europeans. Diane Publishing Company. ISBN 0871692481 .

[2] Remfry, P.M., (1997). Buckenham Castles, 'The Aubignys and the Fifth Crusade, 1218 to 1221'. ISBN 1-899376-05-4 .

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