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BILBEIS, or BELBES

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 931 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BILBEIS, or BELBES  , a
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town of
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lower
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Egypt, on the eastern
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arm of the
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Nile, 36 m . N.N.E. of
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Cairo by
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rail . Pop . (1907) 13,485 . The Coptic name, Phelbes, seems to have been derived from
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Egyptian, but nothing is known of the
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place before
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medieval times . Considered the
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bulwark of the
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kingdom on that
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side,
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Bilbeis was by the Moslems defended with strong fortifications . In 1163–1164 it was besieged for three months by the crusaders under
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Amalric, and in 1168 was captured and pillaged by another
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army of crusaders .
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Napoleon in 1798 ordered the restoration of the fortifications, but they have again fallen into decay . Bilbeis was the first halting-place of the
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English
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cavalry in their
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march on Cairo after the fight at Tel-el-Kebir on the 13th of
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September 1882 .

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