Pelusium
Sign in to savethumb|Map of ancient Lower Egypt showing Pelusium
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Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Pelusium
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_label_position
- bottom
- Settlement.pushpin_mapsize
- 300
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Egypt
- Settlement.pushpin_relief
- 1
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.timezone
- EST
- Settlement.utc_offset
- +2
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Article
12 sectionsContents
- Location
- Names and identity
- History
- Archaeological research
- Roman military roads
- Ecclesiastical history
- Latin titular see
- Melkite titular see
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- Sources and external links
thumb|Map of ancient Lower Egypt showing Pelusium
Pelusium (Ancient Egyptian: ; /, romanized: , or , romanized: ; ; ; ; ) was an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, to the southeast of the modern Port Said. It became a Roman provincial capital and Metropolitan archbishopric and remained a multiple Catholic titular see and an Eastern Orthodox active archdiocese.