(CE:1524a-1524b)
MANSURAH, AL-, city located in the Egyptian Delta about 15 miles (24 km) northeast of al-Mahallah al-Kubra in the Daqahliyyah province. Al-Malik al-Kamil founded al-Mansurah in 1218/1219 when he was fighting the Crusaders in Dumyat (Maspero and Wiet, 1919, p. 198). Though Christianity is not attested in the city until the seventeenth century, al-Mansurah takes a prominent place in the annals of Christian history as the place where Louis IX suffered the defeat in 1249 that effectively spelled the end of the Crusades.
RANDALL STEWART
Claremont Coptic Encyclopedia
