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Encyclopedia Britannica



BILBEIS, or BELBES

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 931 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BER-BLA
BILBEIS, or BELBES , a town of
lower
 
Egypt
 , on the eastern arm of the Nile, 36 m. N.N.E. of Cairo by
rail
 . Pop. (1907) 13,485. The Coptic name, Phelbes, seems to have been derived from Egyptian, but nothing is known of the place before medieval times. Considered the
bulwark
  of the kingdom on that side, Bilbeis was by the Moslems defended with strong fortifications. In 11631164 it was besieged for three months by the crusaders under Amalric, and in 1168 was captured and pillaged by another army of crusaders.
Napoleon
  in 1798 ordered the restoration of the fortifications, but they have again fallen into decay. Bilbeis was the first halting-place of the
English
  cavalry in their
march
  on Cairo after the fight at Tel-el-Kebir on the 13th of September 1882.


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