Delas
دلاص | |
|---|---|
city | |
 The Great Mosque in Delas | |
  Delas Location in Egypt | |
| 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]
- ^ "TM Places". www.trismegistos.org. Retrieved 2023-02-19.
- ^ Annuario Pontificio 2013 (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, 2013, ISBN 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 941]