(eds.), "al-Manṣūra - المنصورة " in The Beth Qaṭraye Gazetteer last modified January 10, 2020, https://bqgazetteer.bethmardutho.org/place/5064
  
    
      
        
          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
          
                    
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            Aḥsan al-taqāsīm fī maʿrifat al-aqālīm
                        Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad Maqdisī
                        
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                        Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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                        http://sws.geonames.org/360761GeoNames Marc Wick