Samanoud

Samanoud, more often written Samannud, is a city and administrative centre (markaz) in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. In antiquity it was Sebennytos, a city of the Nile Delta on the now silted Sebennytic branch of the river, capital of the twelfth nome of Lower Egypt and seat of the Thirtieth Dynasty, whose last ruler Nectanebo II came from there. The historian Manetho is also said to have been from the city, and its Egyptian name meant city of the sacred calf. It resisted the Muslim conquest in 641, gave Christianity three Coptic Patriarchs and was long known for its pottery. In 2019 the markaz held an estimated 410,388 people, of whom 83,417 lived in urban areas.