Damietta (Egypt)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
דמיאט (מצרים)
Name (Latin)
Damietta (Egypt)
Other forms of name
Dumyati (Egypt)
Tamiata (Egypt)
Dumyāṭ (Egypt)
Dimyāṭ (Egypt)
Dumqat (Egypt)
Dumiat (Egypt)
nnaa Damietta
קפוטיקה (מצרים)
Coordinates
E0314854 E0314854 N0312510 N0312510 (geonames )
031.7816078 031.8280067 031.4417822 031.3934849 (gooearth )
Associated country
Egypt
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 159442228
Wikidata: Q189383
Library of congress: n 80034368
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 31°25ʹ10ʺN 031°48ʹ54ʺE)

Wikipedia description:

Damietta (Egyptian Arabic: دمياط, romanized: Dumyāṭ, pronounced [domˈjɑːtˤ]) is a port city which serves as the capital city of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta, 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) from the Mediterranean Sea, and about 200 kilometres (120 mi) north of Cairo. The city was a Catholic bishopric and is a multiple titular see. Damietta is also a member of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities, having joined in 2019.

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