Pelusium or Péluse is a city of the ancient Low-Egypt, located at the North-eastern end of the Delta of the Nile, on what was the named Eastern mouth of the Nile connects Pélusiaque.
It is with 30 km in the south-east of Port-Saïd. The city was also called Greek Pelousion in , Sin in Chaldée N, Seyân in Araméen and Such el-Farama in Arab modern.
The city is quoted (under the name of Sin , " the force of Égypte") in the Bible.
Nowadays, it is the seat of a Métropolite of the orthodoxe Église.
History
Key city of Egypt on the side of Palestine, it was the seat many battles.In -700, the armies of Sennacherib, king of Assyrie, are struck there of disease.
In -525, took place a great battle between Cambyse {{II}} and Psammétique {{III}} which ended in the defeat of the Egyptians. It is told that during the head office of Péluse, Cambyse imagined a stratagem to overcome the resistance of this city. Knowing that the cats were regarded there as crowned, it ordered with its soldiers to capture them and to catapult them towards the city. Indicator that the cat-like ones risked death, the inhabitants went.
The astronomer Claude Ptolémée would have resided at it.
Péluse was taken in -369 by Persians. In -48, Pompée is assassinated there. After the battle of Actium, it fell between the hands from the Romans.
Towards 870, Pelusium would have been a port of first importance in the sales network of the merchants Radhanites.
In 1117, Baudouin of Boulogne shaves the city, but dies shortly after of a food poisoning after having eaten local fish.
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