Ptolemais

Information about Ptolemais

Ptolemais is the ancient name for the cities of: And for the historical cities of: Ptolemais was also the name of a daughter of Ptolemy I Soter.

See also: Ptolemy (disambiguation)
Location

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Time zone: EET/EEST (UTC+2/3)
Government
Country: Greece
Periphery: West Macedonia
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Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e.
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Acre (or Akko) (Hebrew: עַכּוֹakko; Arabic: عكّا akka
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Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e.
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Ptolemais Hermiou is a city in Greco-Roman Egypt, established as a colony on the west bank of the Nile by Ptolemy I Soter to be the capital of Upper Egypt. Today, the city of el-Mansha in the Sohag Governorate is located where the ancient city used to be.
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Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e.
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Ptolemais Theron (translated, "Ptolemais of the Hunts") was a marketplace on the African side of the Red Sea. According to Strabo (16.4.7), Ptolemais was founded as a base to support hunting elephants by a certain Eumedes, who had been sent there by Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of
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Ptolemy II Philadelphus (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Φιλάδελφος, 309 BC–246 BC), was the king of Ptolemaic Egypt from 281 BC to 246 BC.
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For other ancient cities of the same name see Ptolemais


Ptolemais or Ptolemaida was one of the ancient capitals of Cyrenaica, located near the modern town of Tolmeitha (Arabic طلميثة) in Libya.
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Ptolemy III Euergetes, (Greek: Πτολεμαίος Ευεργέτης, reigned 246 BC–222 BC) is sometimes called Ptolemy III Euergetes I.
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Crocodilopolis or Krokodilopolis (Greek: Κροκοδείλων πόλις) or Ptolemais Euergetis or Arsinoe (Greek:
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Ptolemy I Soter (Greek: Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, Ptolemaios Soter, i.e.
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Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus comes from the Greek Ptolemaios, which means warlike. There have been many people named Ptolemy or Ptolemaeus, the most famous of which are the Greek-Egyptian astronomer Claudius Ptolemaeus and the Macedonian founder and ruler of the Ptolemaic
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