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"Egypt"? including Jacob's Ford area as a base to attack Egypt?

It seems confusing to me as a reader that attacks from Jacob's Ford north of the Sea of Galilee (going east towards Damascus presumably, which is in modern day Syria) would be considered attacks upon "Egypt", which in modern day is a nation considerably to the south and west, past the Sinai, and is nowhere nearby. I gather that Saladin built an empire including Damascus and that there was a trade route from "Egypt" to Damascus; did Saladin's empire also include the area of modern day nation of Egypt, or was "Egypt" a term for something else, perhaps sometimes meaning Saladin's entire empire? And, in the text of this article does "an opportunity to attack Egypt" mean an opportunity to attack Damascus or just Saladin's empire in general or does it seriously mean an attack to the east and then south down the trade route to what in modern day is the nation of Egypt?

The article currently includes:

"The Kingdom of Jerusalem still hoped for an opportunity to attack Egypt, but they were not strong enough. In 1178 CE, a fortress at Jacob's Ford - a border crossing outpost north of Lake Tiberias, called by the Arab scholars Beit el-Ahzan - was built as a post of defense and a base from which attacks in the future might be made."

And this article and/or related article(s) mention Saladin having to flee to "Egypt"(?) or specifically to Cairo, after the previous battle of 1177, Battle of Montgisard.

I do see that the disambiguation page Egypt (disambiguation) includes a link labelled "Arab Egypt (639–1250)" which goes to the article Egypt in the Middle Ages. And I dunno, maybe the "Egypt" referred to in this article is the "Upper Egypt" part of "Arab Egypt". But again, as a reader coming to this battle article and related battle articles, it is not at all clear what "Egypt" is supposed to mean. I think that it needs to be clarified in each of the series of articles that uses the term "Egypt". Perhaps each time use a pipelink to Egypt in the Middle Ages? Or call it "Arab Egypt" or somehow differentiate it from Egypt the nation.

I also see that this article does, in Background section, uses term "Egypt" pipelinked to Upper Egypt, which is an article defining it to be the southern(!) portion of modern Egypt, hundreds of miles to the south and west, which hardly makes sense. But if "Egypt" is supposed to mean that, again how is an attack across the Jordan River to the east towards Damascus, from Jacob's Ford, supposed to be an attack on that? Further note that Upper Egypt article is not even mentioned in Egypt (disambiguation).

If "Egypt" means Upper Egypt, note that does not include Cairo, which is where Saladin fled to after Battle of Montgisard according to that article.

Could "Egypt" please be clarified in this and related articles? --Doncram (talk) 21:42, 26 October 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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@Hasankarabasan @Şiyararik12

Please present your sources for your latest changes/additions to the infobox. Kansas Bear (talk) 16:51, 12 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Due to the continued disruption of referenced information in the infobox, per the Stevenson source page 221:"From Safed the Latins marched to Tibnin and then into Marj 'uyun, the valley of the sources of the Jordan. They numbered 1000 lances...[..]..Saladin led out his forces in the early morning he inflicted on the Latins a crushing defeat...[..]...wrote down the names of the prisoners by torch-light in the early morning (10th June). There were over seventy of them." --Kansas Bear (talk) 20:41, 6 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]