The town of Pelusium in the Nile Delta puts up resistance, but Pharaoh Nectanebo II is forced to retreat to Memphis.

There is testimony to the existence of the omophor as a liturgical vestment of the bishop in Isidore of Pelusium about the year 400.

This name and its variant Rhinocolura were used for the region in Sinai containing Pelusium and this translation is thus also consistent with the traditional interpretation.

870, Pelusium is mentioned as a major port in the trade network of the Radhanite merchants.

Pelusium is named ( as " Sin, the strength of Egypt ") in the Biblical book of Ezekiel, chapter 30: 15.

The recension of 2, 000 letters of Isidore of Pelusium known to us from the manuscripts is ascribed in some of the manuscripts to the Acometae in the 6th century.

The story takes place in Ancient Egypt where Princess Amasidia, daughter to King Amasis, is walking along the Pelusium Way in the company of Old Mambres, who the king appointed to be in charge of her household.

While walking along the Pelusium Way she encounters many majestic creatures one which is the most beautiful White Bull she has ever seen.

Antony was defeated by Gallus, and returning to Egypt, advanced on Pelusium.

Following Cyrus the Great's conquest of the Near East and Central Asia, Cambyses II further expanded the empire into Egypt during the Late Period by defeating the Egyptian pharaoh Psamtik III during the battle of Pelusium in 525 BCE.

Despite his efforts to prevent the recovery of the country by the Persians, he succumbed to a massive invasion in 343 BCE, and was defeated at Pelusium.

Cleopatra offered the throne of Egypt to Demetrius II Nicator, but he got no further than Pelusium, and by 127 BC Cleopatra left for Syria, leaving Alexandria to hold out for another year.

At 19: 30, when the New Zealand Mounted Rifle and 5th Mounted Yeomanry Brigades moved from the positions they had won to water and rest at Pelusium, the area was consolidated by infantry in the 127th ( Manchester ) Brigade, 42nd Division.

Tradition regarding the location of Caphtor was preserved in the Aramaic Targums and the commentary of Maimonides which place it at Caphutkia in the vicinity of Damietta ( at the eastern edge of the Nile delta near classical Pelusium ) and by the tenth century commentator Saadia Gaon and Benjamin of Tudela, the twelfth-century Jewish traveller from Navarre, who both wrote that Damietta was Caphtor.

); however, according to legend, Pelusium fell without a fight, by the simple expedient of having the invading army drive cats ( sacred to the local goddess Bast ) before them.

* In 373 BC, Pharnabazus, satrap of Phrygia, and Iphicrates, the commander of the Athenian armament, appeared before Pelusium, but retired without attacking it, Nectanebo I, king of Egypt, having added to its former defences by laying the neighboring lands under water, and blocking up the navigable channels of the Nile by embankments.

* Pelusium was attacked and taken by the Persians, 369 BC.

* In 31 BC, immediately after his victory at Actium, Augustus appeared before Pelusium, and was admitted by its governor Seleucus within its walls.

Of the six military roads formed or adopted by the Romans in Egypt, the following are mentioned in the Itinerarium of Antoninus as connected with Pelusium:

The Egyptians were defeated at Pelusium and Psamtik was betrayed by one of his allies, Phanes of Halicarnas.

After the murder of Perdiccas, all his friends were condemned to death by the army ; Atalante, who was in the camp, was immediately executed, but Attalus escaped his wife's fate in consequence of his absence with the fleet at Pelusium.

Egypt would finally be lost to Persians during the battle of Pelusium.

The vizier, Dirgham, had recently overthrown the vizier Shawar, and marched out to meet Amalric at Pelusium, but was defeated and forced to retreat to Bilbeis.

C. Cornelius Gallus was advancing from Paraetonium ; and Octavian himself landed at Pelusium, with the connivance it was believed of Cleopatra.

* Agathocles rule provokes Tlepolemus, the governor of Pelusium ( Egypt's eastern frontier city ), into action.

* Plague of Justinian: Bubonic plague appears suddenly in the Egyptian port of Pelusium, spreading to Alexandria and, the following year, to Constantinople.

In the decisive battle at Pelusium the Egyptian army was defeated, and shortly afterwards Memphis was taken.

* Antony retreats his army ( 7 legions ) to Egypt and receive the news that Pelusium, has opened its gates to Octavian without resistance.

She tried to raise a rebellion around Pelusium, but she was soon forced to flee with her only remaining sister, Arsinoë.

Antiochus IV then departs Egypt to deal with disturbances in Palestine, but he safeguards his access to Egypt with a strong garrison in Pelusium.

On the formation of the Sénat conservateur he was appointed a member of that body, with an ample provision and the title of count of Pelusium ( Comte de Péluse ), and he became the Senate conservateur's president during 1806-07.

It began in al-Qantara and went east to Pelusium, following the northern coast of Sinai through el-Arish and Rafah.

In 202 BC however Tlepolemus, the general in charge of Pelusium, put himself at the head of a revolt.

He reached Pelusium but failed to cross the Nile.

While Taharqa was still in the neighbourhood of Pelusium, some unexpected disaster may have befallen the Assyrian host on the borders of Palestine and arrested their march on Egypt.

The pharaoh Psamtik III had to face the might of Persia at Pelusium ; he was defeated and briefly escaped to Memphis, but ultimately was captured and then executed.

The Battle of Romani ( 3 – 5 August 1916 ) was fought east of the Suez Canal, near the Egyptian town of Romani and the site of ancient Pelusium on the Sinai Peninsula during the First World War.

When the New Zealand Mounted Rifles Brigade's headquarters and the Canterbury Mounted Rifle Regiments were within of Dueidar on the old caravan road, they were ordered to move directly to Canterbury Hill, the last defensible position in front of the railway, east of Pelusium Station, as the strong German and Ottoman attack was threatening to take the railway and Romani.

When darkness put an end to the fighting, the 1st and 2nd Light Horse Brigades established an outpost line and spent the night on the battlefield, while the New Zealand Mounted Rifles and 5th Mounted Brigades withdrew for water and rations at Pelusium Station, where the newly arrived infantry brigades of the 42nd Division were assembling.

The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne.

God brings the Babylonians, Jerusalem is razed and the Temple destroyed, and the priests, prophets and royal court are led into captivity.

The Older or Pre-Parthenon, as it is frequently referred to, was still under construction when the Persians sacked the city in 480 BC and razed the Acropolis.

* Aberystwyth Castle is razed to the ground by Parliamentarian troops.

The Golden Horde capital city, Sarai, is razed to the ground and Timur installs a puppet ruler on the Golden Horde throne.

The Assassin library is fully razed, hence destroying a crucial source of information about the Assassins.

The original Skibo was razed in the summer of 1994 and replaced by a new student union that is fully wi-fi enabled.

The rebels destroyed the cities Diopolis and Tiberias, while Diocesarea is razed to the ground.

* The ancient Chinese city of Ye is razed to the ground by Yang Jian.

* Ostia is razed by Gaius Marius as he comes back from Africa with an army to take Rome by force.

In Portuguese-ruled Brazil, the leader of the Inconfidência Mineira, Tiradentes, was sentenced to death and his house was " razed and salted, so that never again be built up on the floor, ... and even the floor will rise up a standard by which the memory is preserved the infamy of this heinous offender ...".

The old town, including Piazza Fontana, the church of San Domenico, the Madonna della Salute Sanctuary, and a number of old palazzi, is standing exactly as it did a thousand years ago, when the Byzantines rebuilt what the Saracens had razed to the ground in 927 AC.

A sentence of exile is passed upon him ; his house is razed, and his grandson, Archidamus II, ascends the Spartan throne in his place.

It is most noted for being the site of Fotheringhay ( or Fotheringay ) Castle which was razed in 1627.

( A street along Wyandotte's Detroit River is named after him-ironically on the site of the former iron works he managed, after it failed and was razed around 1904.

The downtown neighborhood is marked by Victorian style houses and other older buildings, many of which have been razed in recent years to construct more parking lots, hotels and condos.

Roads, schools, and houses were there, but were razed after the town relocated to where it is today.

The mansion was razed in 1957, but the shingle style stable, albeit altered, is extant today.

Although the academy was razed, the house across the street from it has a bell in its attic, and is sometimes mistaken for the original Madison Academy.

It has since been razed, and the site is currently home to Best Buy's corporate headquarters.

The location is now out of business and the building has been razed.

The castle was razed to the ground in 1208, and today there is nothing else left than a memorial stone at the place.

The factory was mostly razed in the 1980s and what remains is now Adaptive reuse | " adaptively reused " as a medical clinic.