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	Pelusium
		Pelusium became the metropolitan see of Augustamnica when that province was created, mentioned first in an imperial edict of 342 (Cod.
		The greatest glory of Pelusium is St. Isidore, died 450.
		Under the name of Farmah, Pelusium is mentioned in the "Chronicle" of John of Nikiu in the seventh century (ed.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pelusium.html (364 words)

	Pelusium - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pelusium was a city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of the modern Port Said.
		Pelusium lay between the seaboard and the Deltaic marshes of the Delta, about two and a half miles from the sea.
		Pelusium was attacked and taken by the Persians, 369 BC.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pelusium (1098 words)

	Pelusium
		Pelusium was an city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of Port Said.
		Pelusium was the easternmost major city of Lower Egypt, situated upon the easternmost bank of the Nile, the Ostium Pelusiacum, to which it gave its name.
		In 333 BC, Pelusium opened its gates to Alexander the Great, who placed a garrison in it under the command of one of those officers entitled Companions of the King.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Cities/Pelusium.html (1125 words)

	Pelusium: Gateway to Egypt
		For Pelusium this was a period of prosperity and expansion, but also of war with the Seleucid dynasty, Alexander's successors in Syria.
		At Pelusium in 48 B.C. Cleopatra VII, the last Ptolemaic queen of Egypt, led an army of Syrian and Arab mercenaries against her brother and husband, Ptolemy XIII.
		In 619 Pelusium was attacked and conquered by a Persian army under Khuzran, and in 640 it fell into the hands of Amr Ibn al-As, an Arab soldier who had fought with Muhammed in the conquest of Palestine and, in 642, would become the first Muslim governor of Egypt.
	www.archaeology.org /online/features/pelusium (1990 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| All flights grounded (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		The discovery was made by chance within the framework of a development and restoration project for Pelusium's Roman monuments, which were badly damaged during the Israeli occupation of Sinai when the theatre zone was used as a military base for Israeli troops.
		Pelusium, an ancient port city still largely buried under an expanse of mud and silt, lay at the mouth of the easternmost branch of the Nile.
		The written accounts of Herodotus describe Pelusium as being land granted by Pharaoh Psammetikos I to his Ionian and Carian mercenaries, although as yet no seventh-century BC remains have been found to prove he was correct.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2005/757/eg3.htm (1059 words)

	Pelusium - LoveToKnow 1911
		PELUSIUM, an ancient city and port of Egypt, now represented by two large mounds close to the coast and the edge of the desert, 20 m.
		Its name has not been found on Egyptian monuments, but it may be the Sin of the Bible and of Assur-bani-pal's inscription.
		Pelusium ("the muddy") is the Farama of the Arabs, Peremoun in Coptic; the name Tina which clings to the locality seems etymologically connected with the Arabic word for clay or mud.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Pelusium (135 words)

	HANDING OFF TORCH(Pelusium)
		Pelusium is known by many names, Pelousion by the Greeks, Sa'inu and Per-Amun by the Egyptians, Seyan in Aramaic and Sin in Chaldaic.
		Pelusium's impact on trade was due to the city residing on the route of the caravans from Africa to Asia, and its harbour joined the sea to the branch of the Nile called Pelusiac.
		Ships from the eastern Mediterranean and caravans from Syria-Palestine came to Pelusium to exchange goods, such as wine, oil and honey, which were transported to Egypt and the Red Sea by Nile barge and overland roads.
	www.ancientworlds.net /4626 (401 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Travel \| Treading an ancient path
		At Pelusium the Roman general Pompey was murdered on the orders of his protégé, the young Ptolemy XIII.
		It appears that Pelusium was a pleasure resort in Graeco-Roman times, and high-ranking officials went there for "time out." It is hard to visualise it as such today, but of course the land then was extremely fertile, watered annually by the floods of the Pelusiac branch of the Nile.
		The largest we saw was a church dedicated to Aba Maques, a martyr of the Diocletian persecutions in the fourth century.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2001/523/travel.htm (1588 words)

	Ancient Sources:Sinai and Egypt: 139. Pelusium - (Tell Farama)
		Province of Augustamnica Prima, 13 cities under a corrector: Rhinocorura, Ostracine, Casium, Pentaschoinon, Aphnaion, Gerra, the Tents, Pelusium, Sethroitis, Hephaestus, Panephusis, Tanis, Thmuis.
		I will set fire to Egypt; Pelusium shall be in great agony; Thebes shall be breached, and Memphis face adversaries by day.
		Province of Augustamnica Prima: Pelusium, Setroithes, Tanis, Thmuis, Rhinocorura, Ostracine, Pentaschoinon, Casium, Aphnaion, Ephaestos, Panephysis, the Tents outside Gerra, the Tents inside Gerra, Thennesos.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/ofm/mad/sources/sources139.html (327 words)

	Egypt Holy Family Tour from South Sinai Travel
		One of the first resting places of the Holy Family, the city has long been destroyed however today it is an active archeological dig with a First Century church being restored.
		Pelusium is also famous as the spot that Pompey was hanged and during the crusades King Baldwin died of ptomaine poisoning.
		From Pelusium you will follow the trek of the Holy Family to Tel Basta (or Basta), a short distance from Zagazig, the main town in the Sharqiah Governorate, about 100 kms north-east of Cairo.
	interoz.com /southsinai/holyfamilytour.htm (2326 words)

	Isidore of Pelusium - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Our venerable and God-bearing Father Isidore of Pelusium was a monastic in the deserts of Egypt, making his Mount Pelusium his home and the primary locus of his ascetical efforts.
		For a short time he taught rhetoric in Pelusium in Egypt; but soon his love for the things of God led him to flee to the desert as a solitary.
		After a year of ascetical life, he returned to Pelusium, where he was ordained to the priesthood.
	orthodoxwiki.org /Isidore_of_Pelusium (415 words)

	Sin (2) (International Standard Bible Encyclopedia) :: Bible Tools
		Pelusium (Greek Pelousion) also meant "the clayey or muddy town." The Pelusiac mouth of the Nile was "the muddy mouth," and the modern Arabic name of this mouth has the same significance.
		But although Pelusium appears very frequently in ancient history, its exact location is still not entirely certain.
		Pelusium was also accessible from the sea, or was very near a seaport, for Pompey after the disaster at Pharsalia fled into Egypt, sailing for Pelusium.
	bibletools.org /index.cfm/fuseaction/Def.show/RTD/ISBE/ID/8185 (518 words)

	Pelusium - North Sinai, Roman Egypt
		The city is well and truly abandoned, rarely visited but in relatively good condition - for this kind of ruined city.
		Pelusium, 1st city in Egypt would have been visited by the Holy Family.
		Pelusium was one of the main stops and we pulled up, donned warm clothes as it was I think February and a bit chill.
	www.yaroe.freeserve.co.uk /pelusium/pelusium.htm (379 words)

	Dynasty 27 - Cambyses, Darius The Great
		Having skillfully and successfully led his army across the deserts which separate the two continents, Cambyses met and defeated the Egyptians in front of their city at Pelusium in 525 BC just a few weeks after the death of Pharaoh Amasis of the 19th/26th Dynasty when Psammetichus II was king.
		The Egyptians did not dare to shoot their arrows for fear of wounding the animals, and so Pelusium was stormed successfully.
		This did not stop the ensuing battle at Pelusium, Greek pelos, which was the gateway to Egypt.
	www.crystalinks.com /dynasty27.html (3833 words)

	Pelusium - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		PELUSIUM [Pelusium], ancient city of Egypt, on the easternmost branch of the Nile (long since silted up) and c.20 mi (30 km) E of modern Port Said.
		The Assyrians under Sennacherib were supposedly struck by pestilence at Pelusium, and in 525 BC the Persians under Cambyses overthrew Psamtik III there.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Pelusium" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-pelusium.html (256 words)

	The Wargamer - Ancient Egypt - War, by God: The Fall of the Pharaohs
		On the field of Pelusium he annihilated the Egyptian chariot corps, scattered the ranks of archers who had darkened the sky with their arrows and then overran the vaunted blocks of spearmen who had so impressed his father.
		Although remnants of the ancient Egyptian god kings would hide out in the uppermost cataracts of the Nile, in Ethiopia and in Nubia, from 525 BC onward Egypt would be a province of conquering empires.
		At Pelusium, scene of Egypt’s defeat 200 years earlier, Nectanebo was crushed.
	www.wargamer.com /egypt/paw-10.asp (507 words)

	PELUSIUM - Online Information article about PELUSIUM
		Egyptian monuments, but it may be the See also:
		Pelusium (" the muddy ") is the Farama of the See also:
		Arabs, Peremoun in Coptic; the name Tina which clings to the locality seems etymologically connected with the Arabic word for See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /PAS_PER/PELUSIUM.html (335 words)

	St. Isidore of Pelusium, Plinio Correa de Oliveira commentary on the Saint of the Day, February 4 @ ...
		As a youth he left the city and became a monk at the Monastery of Lychnos, near Pelusium.
		He was also ordained, and became abbot of the monstery.
		Regarding forgiveness of injuries I must be very sensitive to the offenses made to God, and therefore also to Our Lady and to the Holy Catholic Church.
	www.traditioninaction.org /SOD/j060sdIsidore2-04.htm (788 words)

	A Chorographical Decad--Chapters 1-5
		There was a time when the land of Israel and Idumea were not only distinct countries, but separated with an iron wall, as it were, of arms and hostility: but, I know not how, Idumea at last crept into Judea; and scarcely left its name at home, being swallowed up in Arabia.
		"These words were written upon the gate of Pelusium; 'Anpak, Anbag, Antal.'" Which were the names of some measures, that it might be known to all, that they were to buy and sell according to that measure.
		Casius was distant about three hundred furlongs from Pelusium (in Antoninus it is forty miles), and the lake of Sirbon was twenty-eight miles from Casius.
	philologos.org /__eb-jl/decad01.htm (9436 words)

	Saint Patrick's Church: Saints of February 4
		Archbishop Saint Gelasius decreed a uniform liturgy for the entirety of Ireland (Curtis, D'Arcy, MacNeill, O'Hanlon)
		(image) left Alexandria in his youth and became a monk at the monastery of Lychnos near Pelusium.
		He was ordained and in time became an abbot in Egypt, who was much admired by Saint Cyril of Alexandria.
	www.saintpatrickdc.org /ss/0204.htm (3817 words)

	MiamiHerald.com \| 09/28/2006 \| Up & Comers: Nektar De Stagni, Pelusium clothing line and boutique (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		When I was looking for a name, I was looking for where the first T-shirts originated, because I started out only making and selling tops: T-shirts, jackets.
		And I found they had a tunic-like garment that was like the first T-shirt that originated from a city in ancient Egypt [Pelusium].
		Up and Comers is a regular feature focusing on young and emerging performers and entrepreneurs.
	www.miami.com /mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/miami-dade/cities_neighborhoods/northeast/15609840.htm (687 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Isidore of Pelusium
		He is occasionally designated through mistake as Isidore of Damietta.
		Leaving his family and possessions, Isidore retired to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, the name of which was henceforth connected with his own, and embraced the religious life in the monastery of Lychnos, where he soon became remarkable for his exactitude in the observance of the rule and for his austerities.
		A passage in his voluminous correspondence affords reason to believe that he held the office of abbot.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/08185c.htm (1009 words)

	AllRefer.com - Pelusium (Ancient History, Egypt) - Encyclopedia
		AllRefer.com - Pelusium (Ancient History, Egypt) - Encyclopedia
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		Pelusium[pilOO´shEum] Pronunciation Key, ancient city of Egypt, on the easternmost branch of the Nile (long since silted up) and c.20 mi (30 km) E of modern Port Said.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Pelusium.html (176 words)

	Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia, WA
		He struggled in asceticism in a monastery at Mount Pelusium, and became Abbot of the monks struggling in that monastery.
		He wrote a great many Epistles full with divine grace, wisdom, and much profit.
		O All Blessed Isidore, the Church has found you as another morning star; and with the lightning of your words she is illumined and cries out, "Rejoice, O venerable Father of godly mind".
	home.iprimus.com.au /xenos/isidore.html (163 words)

	Lives of Saints :: Amshir 10
		On this day also, the ascetic, scholar and holy man, Anba Isidore of Pelusium (El-Pharma), departed.
		They taught him the books of the church, and the Greek language in which he excelled and surpassed many.
		When he knew that the people of Alexandria and the bishops wanted to make him the Patriarch of Alexandria, he took flight by night to Pelusium and became a monk in a monastery there.
	www.copticchurch.net /synaxarium/06_10.html (640 words)

	Appian's History of Trajan's Arabian War
		But because there was no alternative, I followed him and believed his prophecy.
		Right then, we unexpectedly saw another branch of the river, the part that is closest to Pelusium, and saw a galley passing, going in the direction of Pelusium.
		I went aboard, and this turned out to save my life: the vessel on the other branch had been captured by the Jews.
	www.livius.org /ap-ark/appian/appian_arabs.html (406 words)

	Antiquities of the Jews - Book 14, Chapter 8 - at BibleStudy.org
		Jamblicus the ruler, and Ptolemy his son, and Tholomy the son of Sohemus, who dwelt at Mount Libanus, and almost all the cities.
		So Mithridates marched out of Syria, and came to Pelusium; and when its inhabitants would not admit him, he besieged the city.
		Now Antipater signalized himself here, and was the first who plucked down a part of the wall, and so opened a way to the rest, whereby they might enter the city, and by this means Pelusium was taken.
	www.biblestudy.org /bibleref/antjews/ajb14c08.html (1055 words)

	Pelusium
		These are the ruins of the ancient Roman city of Pelusium.
		This site is not listed in the tour guides, but I was able to tag along on my roommate's class trip.
		The gray disk was probably a mill stone
	homepage.mac.com /lindahardyman/PhotoAlbum7.html (113 words)

	013198 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Thus, as a younger contemporary of St. John Chrysostom and an advocate of that great Archbishop during Saint John's persecution, St. Isidore lived by a basic axiom: "first do and then teach after the example of the Lord Jesus."
		Today's Epistle reading from Galatians identifies all the essential elements entailed in being Christ's, that spiritual state which St. Isidore of Pelusium manifested.
		He fulfilled each of the elements of belonging to Christ and thereby gained the foundation necessary for teaching others how to "be Christ's." Though beset by the many distractions immediately available in his native city, Alexandria, St. Isidore still managed to awake to his Christian identity out of an innate love for Christ.
	www.networksplus.net /kansan/020403.html (517 words)

	Family Tours - Cairo, Pelusium, Wadi Al-Natroun, Minia \| cultural expedition in Egypt \| the highlights of Cairo \| The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Family Tours - Cairo, Pelusium, Wadi Al-Natroun, Minia
		Day2 - Excursion to Pelusium, the ancient seaport and gateway to Egypt, and one of the first resting places of the Holy Family, in an air-conditioned vehicle.
		From there, follow in the steps of the Holy Family to Bilbais in the Delta and Musturud where a church is built over a well, blessed by the Holy Family.
	www.infohub.com /vacation_packages/1134.html (485 words)

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