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	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Damietta
		Damietta is erroneously placed by some historians at Esbeh el-Bordj, six miles from the modern town.
		Damietta is no longer at the mouth of the Nile, but ten miles from the sea; it is not heavily Moslem in population.
		Damietta is also, probably since the fifth century, a see for the Monophysite Copts; moreover, one of the non-Catholic Greek metropolitans subject to the Patriarch of Alexandria bears the title of
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04615b.htm (343 words)

	Damietta - LoveToKnow 1911
		DAMIETTA, a town of Lower Egypt, on the eastern (Damietta or Phatnitic) branch of the Nile, about 12 m.
		After Cairo and Alexandria, Damietta was for centuries the largest town in Egypt, but the silting up of the entrance to the harbour, the rise of Port Said, and the remarkable development of Alexandria have robbed Damietta of its value as a port.
		Damietta gives its name to dimity, a kind of striped cloth, for which the place was at one time famous.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Damietta (403 words)

	Damietta
		Damietta is lso known as Dumyât, and even with Egyptians spelling Damietta several different ways, this is the right branch of the Nile in the Nile delta region.
		Remember, there was no refrigeration at that time, so food would have had to have been preserved (not an inviting idea for cullinary interest even then) or delivered fresh daily.
		Even today, electricity is available only near Port Said to the east, or in the town of Damietta at the Nile.
	www.franklloydwrightinfo.com /damietta.html (915 words)

	Egypt: Saving the Antiquities of Damietta, Egypt Antiquity News
		One of the most important antiquities of Damietta is the Oraby Castle, which was used for defense and weapon storage.
		Damietta serves as another example of the prolific amount of antiquities in Egypt which have gone through a long history of up and down collapses and re-buildings.
		Damietta also serves as an example of ancient antiquities which are rarely known by foreign tourists.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/newstoday07012001.htm (1045 words)

	Damietta
		Damietta, first mentioned by Stephanus Byzantius, was situated at the mouth of the Phatnitic branch of the Nile, on the right bank; its prosperity seems to have coincided with the decline of its religious metropolis Pelusium.
		Damietta is no longer at the mouth of the Nile, but ten miles from the sea; it is not heavily Moslem in population.
		Damietta is also, probably since the fifth century, a see for the Monophysite Copts; moreover, one of the non-Catholic Greek metropolitans subject to the Patriarch of Alexandria bears the title of Pelusium and Damietta.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/d/damietta.html (355 words)

	Damietta
		Town in northern Egypt with 96,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), in the Nile Delta, close to the Mediterranean coast, on the eastern bank of the outlet of the Damietta branch of the Nile.
		It is the capital of the Damietta, or Dumyat, governorate with 1.1 million inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 589 km².
		Damietta is connected with other urban centres by rail and road, Port Said is 50 km east, Mansurah 64 km southwest and Cairo 190 km south.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/damietta.htm (290 words)

	Damietta
		Town in northern Egypt with 96,000 inhabitants (2005 estimate), in the Nile Delta, close to the Mediterranean coast, on the eastern bank of the outlet of the Damietta branch of the Nile.
		It is the capital of the Damietta, or Dumyat, governorate with 1.1 million inhabitants (2005 estimate) and an area of 589 km².
		Damietta is connected with other urban centres by rail and road, Port Said is 50 km east, Mansurah 64 km southwest and Cairo 190 km south.
	i-cias.com /e.o/damietta.htm (290 words)

	Travel in Damietta - Egypt - Middle East - History - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		Damietta was an important city of ancient Egypt and was formerly closer to the sea than at the present.
		After the construction of Mahmudiyah canal in 1819, which diverted much of the Nile trade to Alexandria, Damietta lost mush of its important as a trade centre, although it retained some trade, principally with Syria.
		In modern times dredging of the channel has revived Damietta 's port; construction has taken place to upgrade the port facilities to relieve the overcrowding at Alexandria.
	www.mideasttravelling.net /egypt/damietta/damietta_history.htm (212 words)

	DAMIETTA - Online Information article about DAMIETTA
		Alexandria, Damietta was for centuries the largest town in Egypt, but the silting up of the entrance to the See also:
		Port Said, and the remarkable development of Alexandria have robbed Damietta of its value as a port.
		Damietta is a Levantine corruption of the Coptic name Tamiati, Arabic Dimyat.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /DAH_DEM/DAMIETTA.html (712 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Features \| Enduring love
		Lying at the point of intersection of the Mediterranean and the Nile, Damietta is, first and foremost, a vital port and shipbuilding centre with a history of trade relations with the Levant and Mediterranean Europe.
		Those who are still in Damietta are rather spoiled, according to Mohamed Sheta, whose family has worked in the industry for over 40 years now: "In the past a worker would arrive before the owner and work the whole day, till dusk.
		As Abdel-Salam El-Iraqi points out, however, without official support and incentives, Damietta's success story may not have a happy ending, after all: "The case of Damietta is unique because while we are importers of wood we are exporters of furniture; thus we earn much needed hard currency.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/746/fe3.htm (1054 words)

	EgyShipping: Egyptian Ports Info: Damietta Port
		Alexandria :: El-Dekheila :: Damietta :: PortSaid :: Suez :: Adabiya :: Sokhna
		Damietta Is A First Class Transhipment Port,Which Can Accommodate The New Generation Of Large Container Vessels (6,000 Teus And More).Due To The Deep Draft 14.5 M.,And The Modern Stevedoring Equipments The Port Possess.
		In Addition To This, Vessels Can Enter And Leave The Port Any Time without Any Restrictions, So Vessels Transiting The Suez Canal Can Use Damietta Port Without Any Deviation Which Saves Quiet A Lot Of Time For Main Liners.
	www.egyshipping.com /resources/epi_dam.html (252 words)

	Dumyat (Damietta), City of in Egypt
		Located on a narrow strip of land between the Nile and Lake Manzala lies Dumyat or Damietta in Arabic.
		In the old town of Damietta you will find the Abu El-Maati Mosque that is surrounded by an enormous cemetery.
		The mosque was built during the Fatimid period when the town was captured by the Muslims.
	www.touregypt.net /Dumyat.htm (274 words)

	Hydrocarbons Technology - SEGAS Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Complex, Damietta, Egypt
		SEGAS is understood to be considering plans for a second train of 5.5 million t/yr capacity at the Damietta complex, after securing a joint off-take and feedstock agreement for train 1 with Union Fenosa.
		One of the major subcontractors employed was Saipem (EPC) who have installed two 150,000m³ PC LNG storage tanks at the Damietta export terminal.
		The terminal will receive tanker shipments of LNG from the Damietta complex totalling over 3 million t/yr and then regasify the LNG and distribute it to gas-fired power stations and the national gas pipeline.
	www.hydrocarbons-technology.com /projects/seagas (1131 words)

	CNN.com - Brides killed in building collapse - February 26, 2002
		DAMIETTA, Egypt -- Twenty-two people, including many brides, were crushed to death when a building collapsed in the Egyptian city of Damietta.
		Funerals were due to be held later on Tuesday in Damietta, 105 miles north of Cairo.
		A mother of one of the victims screamed wildly and beat her fists on the door of an ambulance covered with flowers carrying the coffin holding her daughter -- 17-year-old Basma el-Assany.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/africa/02/26/egypt.building (288 words)

	The Damietta Initiative The Franciscans Frequently Asked Questions (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Damietta was where Francis courageously entered the besieged camp of the Sultan, Malik-al-Kamil, and in a spirit of mutual respect, dialogued with him about the mystery of God.
		The hope of the Damietta Initiative rests on the concerted promotion of a new code of behaviour rooted in the strategy, ethics and techniques of non-violence and transformation.
		The Damietta Initiative continues to question the conviction that violence is a moral tolerable human activity.
	www.damiettapeace.org.za /page.php?p_id=142 (1157 words)

	1World2travel - [Dutch] Damietta - Dumjat
		Damietta (Dumjat) was meermaals een strijdveld van de kruisvaarders.
		Hij landde in Egypte en nam opnieuw Damietta in.
		In de 19de eeuw verplaatste een groot deel van de economische activiteiten zich naar Alexandria en Damietta raakte in verval.
	www.1world2travel.com /article.php?articleID=415 (358 words)

	Travel in Damietta - Egypt - Middle East - Culture - WorldTravelGate.net®-
		The Nile river divides Damietta, which is the Capital of the Egyptian Governorate by the same name.
		Mostly Damietta is an industrial center known for its furniture, leathers, textile and sweets industries in addition to dairy products and rice mills and for its agricultural heritage.
		Today, Damietta is becoming more and more of a retreat for the people of Cairo who wish to escape the tourist activity of Alexandria and other North coast cities.
	www.mideasttravelling.net /egypt/damietta/damietta_culture.htm (285 words)

	.. Damietta's home page
		An Egyptian writer and professor of literature, was born in 1913 (also listed as c.1920) in the town of Damietta (Dumyat) in northern Egypt.
		He wrote his biography, which is deemed to be one of the greatest in the history of Arabic literature, to depict his scientific and literary life in such unprecedented candid impartiality and absolute frankness.
		Born on 1927, in Damietta at Shabatany str.
	users.tkk.fi /~fahim/damietta/pages/famous.html (692 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - BP to establish oil plant at Damietta Port (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The project is estimated to represent a capital outlay exceeding $ 1.7 bn, Chairman of the Damietta Port Authority Isam Badawy said.
		Badawy said that the negotiations between BP and the Authority had made good headway and that BP was trying to gain the approval of the cabinet to go ahead with the project.
		The development efforts in the port include the establishment of a multi-purpose quay by two companies, the Arab Contractors and Korean Samsung at the cost of E£ 106 mm, which is currently underway.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/company/cnm13106.htm (246 words)

	Prof. Hadya Mohamed Rashad Abou Kalila
		A Lecturer of "Economics of Education," Department of "Foundations of Education" in Damietta Faculty of Education in 30 / 9 / 1984.
		Damietta Faculty of Education: A Conference on the Egyptian School in the Light of the Knowledge Technology and the Challenges of Globalization, Nov, 2001.
		The Supervisor of Basic Education Department in the Faculty of Education in Damietta from 1994 — 1995 to 1997 — 1998 A.D. A Member in the Faculty Board of Assistant Professor from 1 / 1998 until 31 / 1999 A.
	www.mans.eun.eg /pcvs/86729e.asp (1452 words)

	Search Results for "Damietta"
		...Rashid (Rosetta) and Dumyat (Damietta) branches of the Nile River.
		It is the trade center for an irrigated agricultural region that produces corn, grain, cotton,...
		Al Mansurah was founded in 1221 to replace Dumyat (Damietta), then occupied by Crusaders.
	www.bartleby.com /cgi-bin/texis/webinator/65search?query=Damietta (265 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Makrisi: Arabic Acc't of St. Louis' Crusade
		As he had no doubt but that Damietta would be the first place attacked, he endeavoured to put it in a state of defence, and formed there magazines of every sort of provision, arms, and ammunition.
		It is impossible to paint the despair of the inhabitants of Damietta when they saw the emir Fakreddin march away from their town, and abandon them to the fury of the Christians..
		After many conferences and disputes, it was agreed that the French should evacuate Damietta, and that the king, and all prisoners in Egypt, should be set at liberty, on condition of paying down one half of such ransom as should be fixed on.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/source/makrisi.html (8443 words)

	St. Bonaventure University: SBU to celebrate multiculturalism and diversity at dedication of Damietta Center
		Located on the west end of Francis Hall in a building that was originally the convent for Christ the King Seminary, this center is the direct result of an initiative promoted by the Strategic Planning Committee for Diversity.
		The name Damietta was chosen because it was the place where Francis of Assisi met with Sultan Malek al-Kamil.
		The Damietta Center is dedicated in memory of the journey of Francis of Assisi from Europe to the lands of Islam and the non-violent encounter with a ruling Moslem leader of his time.
	www.sbu.edu /index.cfm?objectid=A7A0EBAD-1143-EB9C-3A229F4CC378687F&navid=C1CDF62C-C09F-0662-D2546A3F3CC65587&print=yes (699 words)

	Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) at the Damietta LNG Plant
		The Damietta LNG Plant is owned by Spanish Egyptian Gas Co. (SEGAS) - a joint venture between the Spanish “Union Fenosa” and the Italian “ENI”.
		SEGAS is investing $ 1 billion for the construction of its LNG plant being built in Damietta, that will have capacity to process 7.6 billion cubic meters (268.4 billion cu ft) of gas per year, producing about 4.8 million tones of LNG when it starts up at the end of 2004.
		The main contractor is Damietta LNG Construction Llc.
	www.sgs.com /pt_br/non_destructive_testing_at_the_damietta_lng_plant?viewId=2412 (284 words)

	Oliver of Paderborn and his siege engine at Damietta
		This strong fortress guarded one end of an iron chain that stretched across the Damietta branch of the Nile.
		This is unlikely to have prompted Oliver's invention at Damietta.
		Bernard of Chartres, in his famous metaphor, said that medieval scholars were `but dwarves standing on the shoulders of giants.' of which it would be difficult to find a better example.
	www.deremilitari.org /resources/articles/francis.htm (2187 words)

	National Navigation Company
		Damietta Harbor is about 8.5 KM to the west of Damietta branch of river Nile in the Mediterranean sea, it is at the distance of 70 km to the west of Port Said port (the Northern entrance of Suez canal).
		First Class Transshipment Port,which can accommodate the new generation of large container vessels (6,000 Teus and more), due to the deep draft of 14.5 M., and modern stevedoring equipment the port possesses.
		In addition, vessels can enter and depart the port at any time, without any restrictions, so vessels transiting the Suez Canal can Use Damietta Port without any deviation, which saves quite a lot of time for main liners.
	www.nnc.egnet.net /Damietta.htm (151 words)

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