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Industrial town (cotton) and capital of
Dakahlia province, NE Egypt, on the Damietta
branch of the Nile; population (1983)
310,900. Mansura was founded about 1220; St
Louis IX, king of France, was imprisoned in
the fortress while on a Crusade, 1250.