al-Manṣūra - المنصورة
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al-Manṣūra; المنصورة
[A] town in Lower Egypt near Damietta (Dimyāṭ [q.v.]), and chief place of the mudīriyyat al-Daḳahliyya . The town was founded in 616/1219 by the Ayyūbid sultan al-Malik al-Kāmil [q.v.] as a fortified camp against the Crusaders, who had conquered Dimyāṭ in S̲h̲aʿbān 616/November 1219.
فالامصار سمرقند ايرانشهر شهرستان اردبيل همذان الاهواز شيراز السيرجان المنصورة زبيد مكة بغداد الموصل دمشق الفسطاط القيروان قرطبة
location: 31.03637 31.38069
identifier: https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5064
identifier: http://syriaca.org/place/5064
identifier: http://sws.geonames.org/360761
Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī 47
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition P. Bearman
http://sws.geonames.org/360761 GeoNames Marc Wick