Dakahla

Dakahla is an old village in the northeastern Nile Delta, near Damietta and the waterways leading to the Mediterranean. In the early Islamic period it was known by a Coptic name, Tkehli, and served as the centre of an administrative district. The wider region took its name from the settlement. Its fields and canals form part of the fertile lowland between the Nile's eastern branch and the coastal lagoons.