Damietta Branch
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 19, 2021 02:46 PM
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History
The Damietta branch is an eastern distributary of the Nile Delta and gives its name to an associated settlement.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/434655354
30.8780196426, 31.3748592238
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Damietta branch (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bousiritikos Potamos (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Bousiritikos potamos (304 BC - AD 640)
- Damietta Branch (English, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Damiette-Arm (German, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Farʿ Dumyāt (AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Farʿ Dumyāṭ (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
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settlement, river, drainage
TAVO Index
GANE OBJECT 13957
B. Siewert-Mayer, W. Röllig, H. Kopp, jfu, Sean Gillies, Francis Deblauwe, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Eric Kansa, 'Damietta Branch: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/434655354> [accessed: 11 March 2025]
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