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Būra

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מטא-דאטא

Coordinates
31° 24′ 0″ N, 31° 43′ 38″ E

Notes

"'A city on the seacoast near Damietta, from which come the būrī turbans and the būrī fish (=mullet).' Yāqūt, Muʿjam 1, p. 755; lying midway between Fāraskūr and Damietta." See Golb, "The Topography of the Jews of Medieval Egypt," pp. 121–22. Apparently on the site of present-day Kafr al-Baṭṭīkh.