Pelusium

Pelusium
Ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲙⲟⲩⲛ
Ⲥⲓⲛ
الفرما
Pelusium
Location in Egypt
Coordinates: 31°02′30″N 32°32′42″E / 31.04167°N 32.54500°E / 31.04167; 32.54500
Country Egypt
Time zoneUTC+2 (EST)

Pelusium (Ancient Egyptian: pr-jmn; Coptic: Ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲙⲟⲩⲛ/Ⲡⲉⲣⲉⲙⲟⲩⲏ, romanized: Peremoun, or Ⲥⲓⲛ, romanized: Sin; Hebrew: סִין, romanized: sin; Koinē Greek: Πηλούσιον, romanized: Pēlousion; Latin: Pēlūsium; Egyptian Arabic: تل الفرما, romanized: Tell el-Farama) 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.