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Horbit (Template:Langx) is a town in Sharqia Governorate of Egypt.

It's an ancient town referred to in a stele of the 7th century BC,[1] and described by Herodotus,[2] Strabo,[3] and Pliny.[4]

It served as the capital of the nome of Pharbaethites/Lapt in Lower Egypt.[5][1]

Etymology

The town's Arabic name comes from Coptic Pharbait (Template:Langx), which in turn is derived from Template:Langx.[6] It was also known as Sheten (Template:Langx).[7]

In Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt it was known as Pharbaithos (Template:Langx) or Pharbaethus. This name is reproduced under the form Karbeuthos in George of Cyprus.[8]

Ecclesiastical history

The original diocese was a suffragan of Leontopolis, in Augustamnica Secunda, Egypt.

There is a record of Bishop Arbetion at Nicæa in 325,[9] and Bishop Theodorus in 1086,[10] but it is possible that the latter was bishop of another Pharbætus situated further to the west, and which according to Vansleb was equally a Coptic see. John of Nikiu[11] relates that under the Emperor Phocas (602–10) the clerics of the province killed the Greek governor Theophilus.

It remains a Roman Catholic titular see under the name Pharbaetus.

See also

References

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  1. a b Eugène Revillout, "Acte de fondation d'une chapelle à Hor-Merti dans la ville de Pharbaetus", Revue Égyptologique, 2:1:32 (1881) full text
  2. II, 166.
  3. XVII, i, 20.
  4. Natural History V, 9, 11.
  5. Karl Baedeker, Egypt: handbook for travellers : part first, lower Egypt..., 1885 (2nd edition), p. 33. full text
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  8. "Descriptio orbis romani", ed. Gelzer, 706.
  9. Gelzer, "Patrum nicænorum nomina", LX.
  10. Renaudot, "Historia patriarcharum alexandrinorum", 458.
  11. Chronicle, CV.

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Sources

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Attribution
  • Template:Catholic The entry cites:
    • Heinrich Gelzer, Georgii Cyprii Descriptio orbis romani, 114–16;
    • ROUGÉ, Géographie ancienne de la Basse Egypte (Paris, 1891), 66–74;
    • Émile Amélineau, La Géographie de l'Egypte à l' époque copte (Paris, 1893), 330.

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