Nitria

settlement

human settlement in Egypt

Location: 30.9287, 30.3856 · Pleiades 727176

Who is recorded here

Ammonius death · AD 399

About the place

Nitria is one of the earliest Christian monastic sites in Egypt and is located in the Nitrian Desert. It was the first of the three major centers of Christian monastic activity in the Lower Egypt, the other two being Kellia and Scetis.

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