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Definition of Pelusiac

Pelusiac
Pelusiac Pe*lu"si*ac, a. [L. Pelusiacus.] Of or pertaining to Pelusium, an ancient city of Egypt; as, the Pelusiac (or former eastern) outlet of the Nile.

Meaning of Pelusiac from wikipedia

- the delta had seven distributaries or branches, (from east to west): the Pelusiac the Tanitic the Mendesian the Phatnitic or Phatmetic (later the Damietta)...
- The Brook of Egypt (Hebrew: נַחַל מִצְרַיִם, romanized: naḥal mitzrayim, lit. 'wadi of Egypt') is a wadi identified in the Hebrew Bible as forming the...
- mapped all the branches of the ancient Delta and established that the Pelusiac branch was the easternmost during Ramesses' reign while the Tanitic branch...
- to silting and flood relief schemes. From east to west, they were: the Pelusiac, the Tanitic, the Mendesian, the Phatnitic (extant; now the Damietta or...
- (1 Kings 9:26). The Lake of Tanis, a former coastal lagoon fed by the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, has also been proposed as the place Moses parted the...
- Cleopatra seems to have had no west–east waterway p****age, because the Pelusiac branch of the Nile, which fed Ptolemy's west–east canal, had by that time...
- completed the ambitious project of cutting a navigable canal from the Pelusiac branch of the Nile to the Red Sea. Necho's Canal was the earliest precursor...
- Siculus xv. 42; Cornelius Nepos, Iphicrates c. 5.) Fortifications on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile ordered by Nectanebo forced the enemy fleet to s****...
- of Egypt in the 13th nome of Lower Egypt (the Heliopolite Nome), on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile. This site is known for its distinctive pottery known...
- Elder it had in ancient times seven distributaries (east to west): The Pelusiac The Tanitic The Mendesian The Phatnitic The Sebennytic The Bolbitine The...