Renowned as a transit point for the roman trade route on land between the Mediterranean Sea (Pelousion) and the Red Sea, the Port city of Suez today traces back to this village that was existed around 3rd BC.
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Clysma or Klysma or Qulzum was a village situated around the northeast Egypt at the northern end of the Gulf of Suez and at the southern terminus of the Suez Canal.
The force sails by ship from Clysma (Suez, Egypt) to Leuke Come (prob. Sharmah, Hijaz, NW Saudi Arabia) but suffers heavy losses to storms in transit, so that on arrival, Gallus is forced to spend the rest of the year at Leuke Come to give his men a chance to recuperate and to effect repairs to his fleet.