Damietta

Damietta ('''' ) 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, from the Mediterranean Sea, and about north of Cairo. The city was a Catholic bishopric and is a multiple titular see. Damietta is also a member of the UNESCO Global Network of Learning Cities.

1218–1219 siege

853 raid on the port city of Damietta on 22–24 May 853

1249 part of the Seventh Crusade

mosque in Egypt

Port in Egypt

1732 naval battle