city
Scetis
Wadi el-Natrun, Egypt
30.417, 30.350
Attested. Monastic settlement here is well attested. Individual sayings in the Apophthegmata are later literary tradition.
Scetis
Wadi el-Natrun, Egypt
A desert region west of the Nile Delta that became a major monastic settlement in the fourth century, associated with Macarius and later desert fathers.
Related places
- Dayr al-Suryan (Monastery of the Syrians) — A monastery within Scetis.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Councils here
None in this list.