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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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BILBEIS, or BELBES

BILBEIS, or BELBES , a See also:

TOWN

town of See also:

LOWER

lower See also:

EGYPT

Egypt, on the eastern See also:

ARM (a common Teutonic word; the Indo-European root is ar, to join or fit; cf. the Lat. armus, shoulder, and the plural word arma, weapons, Gr. apphs, joint, and the reduplicated apapilKSV, to join)

arm of the See also:

Nile, 36 m. N.N.E. of See also:

Cairo by See also:

RAIL

rail. Pop. (1907) 13,485. The Coptic name, Phelbes, seems to have been derived from See also:

EGYPTIAN

Egyptian, but nothing is known of the See also:

PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place before See also:

MEDIEVAL

medieval times. Considered the See also:

BULWARK (a word probably of Scandinavian origin, from bol or bole, a tree-trunk, and werk, work, in Ger. Bollwerk, which has also been derived from an old German bolen, to throw, and so a machine for throwing missiles)

bulwark of the See also:

KINGDOM

kingdom on that See also:

side, Bilbeis was by the Moslems defended with strong fortifications. In 1163–1164 it was besieged for three months by the crusaders under See also:

Amalric, and in 1168 was captured and pillaged by another See also:

army of crusaders. See also:

NAPOLEON

Napoleon in 1798 ordered the restoration of the fortifications, but they have again fallen into decay. Bilbeis was the first halting-place of the See also:

ENGLISH

English See also:

CAVALRY (Fr. cavalerie, Ger. Kavallerie or Reiterei, derived ultimately from late Lat. caballus, horse)

cavalry in their See also:

march on Cairo after the fight at Tel-el-Kebir on the 13th of See also:

SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1882.

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