Damietta

Damietta also known as Damiata, or Domyat, is a port and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and gift more than one Catholic titular see. It is located on the Damietta department, an jap distributary of the Nile, 15 kilometres from the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 200 kilometres north of Cairo. In Ancient Egypt, the city changed into called Tamiat, but in the Hellenistic length it become called Tamiathi.

Mentioned with the aid of the 6^th century geographer Stephanus Byzantius, the metropolis later became referred to as Damiata and as Damietta, which probable derived from an ancient Egyptian word "Damt" which means the capacity, in view that Damietta had the capacity to combine the salt water of the Mediterranean Sea and the clean water of the Nile in one location. Other historians notice that the city became known as "Tam Heet" this means that the metropolis of the water or the town of the jogging water. Another derivation of the call might be "Tam Het", which means metropolis of North.