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Housing Units (2000): 657
Land area (2000): 1.756511 sq. miles (4.549343 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.756511 sq. miles (4.549343 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48400
Located within: Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location: 31.059242 N, 92.048660 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 71350
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mansura
Wikipedia
Mansura was the historic capital of the Arab empire in Sindh, Pakistan during the eighth century under the Umayyad Caliphate. The city now lies in Sanghar District situated about south-east of Shahdadpur, Sanghar District, and north-east of Hyderabad.
The locality names Mansura, Mansoura, Al Mansurah, El Mansurah, Mansoorah, and similar, may refer to:
In Egypt
- Mansoura, Egypt, a major city in Egypt
- Battle of Al Mansurah, an important battle that took place in the Nile River Delta during the Seventh Crusade
In Pakistan
- Mansura (Brahmanabad), ruined city near Shahdadpur, Pakistan
- Mansoorah, Lahore, a suburb of Lahore, headquarters of Jamat-e-Islami.
In Palestine, depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
- Al-Mansura, Acre, 29 km northeast of Acre
- Al-Mansura, Khirbat, 18.5 km southeast of Haifa
- Al-Mansura, Ramla, 10 km south of Ramle
- Al-Mansura, Safad, 31 km northeast of Safad
- Mansurat al-Khayt, 11.5 km east of Safad
- Al-Mansura, Tiberias, 16 kilometres northwest of Tiberias
In Tunisia
- El-Mansoura, Tunisia, small Tunisian village near Kelibia
- Mansoura, Tunisia, town situated 8 km from Souassi and el Djem
In Algeria
- Mansourah, Algeria, a village in Tlemcen Province, Algeria
- Mansoura, Ghardaïa, a village in Ghardaïa Province, Algeria
- Mansourah District (disambiguation), the name of several districts in Algeria
Elsewhere
- Mansura, Louisiana, a town in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana, United States
- Mansoura, Cyprus, an abandoned village in Cyprus
- Mansura, Iran, a village in Khuzestan Province, Iran
- Al-Mansoura (Aden), a city district in Yemen
- Mansura, Libya, a town in Libya
- Mansoura, Morocco, a town in Morocco
- Mansura, Hama, a village in Syria
Usage examples of "mansura".
That on the right bank is known as Mansura Ridge, that on the left bank as In Seirat.
However, the Wadi Ghuzzeh was crossed, and the high ground at Mansura Ridge was secured.
Accordingly, a withdrawal was ordered, and our troops fell back on the Mansura Ridge, the New Zealanders coming right through the town of Gaza itself.
On this occasion, the first objective was Mansura Ridge, which was captured without much difficulty.
The troops detailed for the attack were the 52nd, the 53rd and the 54th Divisions, the 54th to move forward from Mansura, the 52nd on their left and the 53rd close to the sea.
That night, those that were able to do so, crept back under cover of darkness to Mansura Ridge.
Those that returned were collected and reorganized at Mansura Ridge, and at once commenced to dig in at this position.
After this, our digging proceeded apace, and we soon had a satisfactory position entrenched from Mansura to the sea.
April the Battalion left the outpost line on Sheikh Nebhan and marched towards Gaza, resting during the middle of the day on a ridge west of El Burjaliye, and moving in the afternoon on to Mansura Ridge in support.
The Turks followed up this success by capturing a ridge farther east, from which they could shell our positions at Mansura practically with impunity, and could, moreover, prevent supplies and water from reaching the beleaguered garrison.
The situation now looked extremely serious, for the Turks, growing bolder, launched a most determined attack on Mansura, and in spite of numerous counter-attacks rapidly made the ridge untenable.