Pelusium
Ancient city · Egypt
- Abandoned
- unknown
- Founded
- —
- Population
- —
- Coordinates
- 31.050, 32.600
Why it was abandoned
🏛️ Ancient ruins
Detected automatically from the text: ancient Egyptian archaeological site
History
Pelusium was an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km (19 mi) to the southeast of the modern Port Said. It became a Roman provincial capital and Metropolitan archbishopric and remained a multiple Catholic titular see and an Eastern Orthodox active archdiocese.