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Pelusium

Also known as Tell el-Farama

Pelusium was a city at the easternmost mouth of the Nile, near modern Port Said, guarding the route into Egypt from Sinai and Palestine. Invading armies often fought there: the Persian king Cambyses II defeated Psamtik III nearby in 525 BCE, and Artaxerxes III defeated Nectanebo II in 343 BCE. The Roman general Pompey was murdered on the shore at Pelusium in 48 BCE.

Pelusium
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Pelusium. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/pelusium
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