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Discover Daqahlah in Egypt

Daqahlah in the region of Dumyāţ is a town located in Egypt - some 86 mi or ( 138 km ) North of Cairo , the country's capital .

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Local time in Daqahlah is now 10:58 AM (Monday) . The local timezone is named " Africa/Cairo " with a UTC offset of 2 hours. Depending on your flexibility, these larger cities might be interesting for you: Tyre, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Taftish as Sarw. When in this area, you might want to check out Tyre . Are you looking for some initial hints on what might be interesting in Daqahlah ? We have collected some references on our attractions page.


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Damietta University

Damietta University is an extension of Mansoura University in Damietta, in the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. The idea of opening classes for some faculties there began when the number of Mansoura University students in Damietta increased. The decision to open branch colleges followed.

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Located at 31.23 31.83 (Lat./Long.); Less than 15 km away
Tags: Damietta, Universities in Egypt

Damietta

Damietta, also known as Damiata, or Domyat, is a port and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt. It is located at the Damietta branch, a distributary of the Nile, 15 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, about 200 kilometres north of Cairo.

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Located at 31.42 31.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 23 km away
Tags: Crusade places, Damietta, Governorate capitals in Egypt, Nile River Delta, Populated coastal places in Egypt, Populated places in Damietta Governorate

Caphutkia

Caphutkia (also Capotakia or Kapotakia) in Aramaic קפוטקיא, קפוטקאי, קפודקאי, (later Katpatuka in Old Persian) was the name used in mediaeval Jewish and Syriac writings for the town in the vicinity of the former Ptolemaic city of Pelusium and its later Arab counterpart Damietta. Caphutkia is mentioned in the Targums and the Syriac commentary on Genesis where it is identified with the locality called Caphtor in the Bible.

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Located at 31.42 31.82 (Lat./Long.); Less than 23 km away
Tags: Medieval Egypt

Damietta Port

Egypt's Damietta Port is situated 8.5 km west of the Nile river of Damietta branch westward Ras El-Bar, and it is 70 km away from Port Said. The port installations extend on an area of 11.8 km. The port is bordered by an imaginary line connecting the eastern and western external breakwaters.

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Located at 31.47 31.77 (Lat./Long.); Less than 25 km away
Tags: Damietta, Damietta Governorate, Ports and harbours of Egypt