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Ptolemais
(Cyrenaica)

GEO ID: 2018
Name: Ptolemais
Variant names: Ptolemais - Tolmeita (Tolmeta - Tolmeitha - Tolemta - Tulmaythah) - El-Dirsiyah (Ad Dirsiyah) - Wadi Bu Nabeh
Greek name: Πτολεμαίς
Latin name: Ptolemais - Ptolomais
Egyptian name:
Coptic name:
Other:
Modern name: Tolmeita
Ethnic: Ptolemaieus (Ptolemaissa) apo Barkes
Country: Libya
Provincia: Cyrenaica
Region: Cyrenaica
Nome:
Administrative situation:
Status: city: polis
Location: a city of the Pentapolis (6482)
Identification:
Repertoria: Dizionario IV, p. 205 (3)
Bibliography: PP X, 2002, p. 274-275; Mueller, Settlements of the Ptolemies, 2006, p. 207 no. 62
Maps: Baines / Malek, Atlas, 2002, p. 54
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