Sheremsah () is a

village A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet but smaller than a town (although the word is often used to describe both hamlets and smaller towns), with a population typically ranging from a few hundred to ...

on the

Nile The Nile, , Bohairic , lg, Kiira , Nobiin language, Nobiin: Áman Dawū is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa. It flows into the Mediterranean Sea. The Nile is the longest river in Africa and has historically been considered ...

in the

governorate A governorate is an administrative division of a state. It is headed by a governor. As English-speaking nations tend to call regions administered by governors either states or provinces, the term ''governorate'' is often used in translation from ...

Damietta Damietta ( arz, دمياط ' ; cop, ⲧⲁⲙⲓⲁϯ, Tamiati) is a port city and the capital of the Damietta Governorate in Egypt, a former bishopric and present multiple Catholic titular see. It is located at the Damietta branch, an easte ...

. Its name goes back to the

ancient Egyptian language The Egyptian language or Ancient Egyptian ( ) is a dead Afro-Asiatic language that was spoken in ancient Egypt. It is known today from a large corpus of surviving texts which were made accessible to the modern world following the deciphe ...

. It was used as a camp during the Seventh Crusade. Its name was mentioned in several books such as: *

Wa Islamah ''Oh Islam'' ( ar, وا اسلاماه, translit. Wa Islamah, and also released as ''Love and Faith'') is a 1961 Egyptian drama film directed by Enrico Bomba and Andrew Marton. The film was selected as the Egyptian entry for the Best Fore ...

, a historical novel by

Ali Ahmad Bakathir Ali bin Ahmad bin Mohammed Bakathir (21 December 1910 - 10 November 1969) (Arabic: علي أحمد باكثير) is an Egyptian poet, playwright and novelist of Hadrami origin, who is Indonesian-born. He was a prominent playwright, his best-k ...

. * Al-Khotat, a book about

history History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the History of writing#Inventions of writing, invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbr ...

and

geography Geography (from Greek: , ''geographia''. Combination of Greek words ‘Geo’ (The Earth) and ‘Graphien’ (to describe), literally "earth description") is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, features, inhabitants, a ...

Egypt Egypt ( ar, مصر , ), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia via a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula. It is bordered by the Med ...

by Al-maqurizi. *

The Personality of Egypt ''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in E ...

, A book about the geography of Egypt, by Dr.

Gamal Hemdan Gamal Hamdan () (February 2, 1928 – April 17, 1993) was an Egyptian scholar and geographer. Among his most prominent books are ''The Character of Egypt'', ''Studies of the Arab World'', and ''The Contemporary Islamic World Geography'', which ...

Famous personalities

* Ibrahim "bey" El-Zohairy, Member of the first Egyptian parliament in 1923. * Hamza "bey" El-Zohairy. * Abbas El-Zohairy. * Ahmed El-Zohairy. * Adel El-Zohairy. * Basem El-Zohairy. * Haytham El-Zohairy. * Amr El-Zohairy Populated places in Damietta Governorate Villages in Egypt {{Egypt-geo-stub