Baltim

Baltim is a city in the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate on the north coast of Egypt. The second part of its name preserves an Ancient Egyptian word meaning the end or furthest part of Egypt. Baltim benefited from a tax reduction under the reign of the Sultan Barquq, and Ibn Battuta noted it as the capital of the district of Burullus, a position it held through the late 1800s. The 1885 census of Egypt recorded it as a nahiyah in the district of Aklim el-Borollos in Gharbia Governorate, with a population of 4,286. Its climate is hot desert (Köppen BWh), but prevailing winds from the Mediterranean Sea moderate the temperatures, giving moderately hot and humid summers and mild, moderately wet winters. Baltim is among the places in Egypt with the least temperature variation and among the wettest.