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Damietta city - Damietta governorate
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The name Damietta is a corruption of the ancient Coptic "Tamiatti".
Damietta was an important city of ancient Egypt and was formerly closer to the sea than at the present. It declined with the development of Alexandria (after 322 BC).
In AD 638 the Arab
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