2) Damietta. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Damietta, see Dumyat, Egypt....

3) Minuf. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...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,...

4) Mansurah, Al. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Manufactures include ginned cotton, cottonseed oil, and textiles. Al Mansurah was founded in 1221 to replace Dumyat (Damietta), then occupied by Crusaders. In 1250,...

5) Nile. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...Luvironza River in Burundi, central Africa, to its delta on the Mediterranean Sea, NE Egypt. The Nile flows northward and drains c.1,100,000 sq mi (2,850,000 sq km),...

6) Crusades. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001
...European Christians between the 11th and 14th cent. to recover the Holy Land from the Muslims. 1 First Crusade OriginsIn the 7th cent., Jerusalem was taken by the...