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PELUSIUM

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 77 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PELUSIUM , an See also:

ancient See also:city and See also:port of See also:Egypt, now represented by two large mounds See also:close to the See also:coast and the edge of the See also:desert, 20 M. E. of Port Said. It See also:lay in the marshes at the mouth of the most easterly (Pelusiac) See also:branch of the See also:Nile, which has See also:long since been silted up, and was the See also:key of the See also:land towards See also:Syria and a strong fortress, which, from the See also:Persian invasion at least, played a See also:great See also:part in all See also:wars between Egypt and the See also:East. Its name has not been found on See also:Egyptian monuments, but it may be the See also:Sin of the See also:Bible and of See also:Assur-bani-See also:pal's inscription. 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:clay or mud. The site, crowned with extensive ruins of burnt See also:brick of the See also:Byzantine or Arab See also:period, has not yielded any important remains. (F. U.

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