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Faraskur (Arabic: فارسكور) is a city in Damietta Governorate, Egypt. Before the 1952 revolution it was a part of Dakahlia Governorate. Notable people
But shortly after the battle of Fariskur, the Ayyubid Sultan Turanshah was assassinated at Fariskur itself [26] [35] and the Mamluks, the same victorious champions of Al Mansurah, became the new rulers of Egypt. The power map of the southern and eastern Mediterranean basin became divided among four main dominions: Mamluk Egypt, Ayyubid Syria ...
Damietta also produces wheat, maize, cotton, rice, potatoes, lemons, grapes and tomatoes. It is also famous for its sweet industry, sardine packing, furniture industry and Domiati cheese . Ras El Bar, one of the oldest summer resorts in Egypt, is located at the point where the Nile river meets the Mediterranean Sea .
Damietta (Arabic: دمياط Dumyāṭ [domˈjɑːtˤ]; Coptic: ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, romanized: Tamiati) is a port city and the capital 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 ...
Egypt is divided, for the purpose of public administration, according to a three-layer hierarchy and some districts are further subdivided, creating an occasional fourth layer. It has a centralized system of local government officially called local administration as it is a branch of the Executive .
The sultan at one point offered to hand over Jerusalem if the crusaders would abandon Egypt, but they refused, the defences of Jerusalem having just been razed by al-Kāmil's brother, al-Muʿaẓẓam, perhaps in preparation for the offer. [21] The truce was broken by al-Kāmil on 25 September, but Damietta surrendered on 5 November. [20]
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