Delas
دلاص | |
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city | |
Coordinates: 29°11′8.76″N 31°8′3.05″E / 29.1857667°N 31.1341806°E | |
Country | Egypt |
Governorate | Beni Suef |
Elevation | 29 m (95 ft) |
Population (2006)[citation needed] | |
• Total | 14,199 |
Time zone | UTC+2 (EST) |
Delas (Arabic: دلاص, Coptic: ϯⲗⲟϫ, ⲧⲉⲗⲁϫ, romanized: Tiloj, Telaj, from Ancient Egyptian: Tȝ-lḏ) is a city in Beni Suef Governorate of Egypt, situated on the left bank of the Nile.
In Ptolemaic and Byzantine Egypt it was known as Tilothis (Ancient Greek: Τιλωθις) or Nilopolis (Ancient Greek: Νείλου πόλις).[1]
It was an episcopal see that a suffragan of the metropolitan of Oxyrynchos, in the Roman province of Arcadia Aegypti, and is included as such in the Catholic Church's list of titular sees.[2]