Dayr Jimyanah

DAYR AL-MAGHTIS or Dabra Metmaq Al-MAQRIZI indicated that this monastery stood “beside the saline marshes, near the Lake of al-Burullus . . . and in the neighborhood is the salt-marsh from which the Rashidic [Rosetta] salt is obtained” (1845, pp. 44-45 [text], 108-109 [trans.]; 1853, Vol. 2, p. 508). He later indicated that DAYR AL-‘ASKAR …

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