Mansourah, a town of Lower Egypt, on the Damietta branch of the Nile, 30 miles SW. of Damietta by rail. Pop. (1897) 34,997. The place was founded in 1220, and here St Louis of France was imprisoned in 1250.
Mansourah
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 7: Maltebrun to Pearson, p. 27
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