This article is about the large ancient city in Lower Egypt. For the city near the Egyptian Heliopolis, see Leontopolis (Heliopolis). For other uses, see Leontopolis (disambiguation).
Leontopolis was an ancient Egyptian city located in the Nile Delta, Lower Egypt. It served as a provincial capital and Metropolitan Archbishopric. The archaeological site and settlement are known today as Kafr Al Muqdam.
archbishopric of Metropolitan rank; it was renamed in 1925 Leontopolis, in 1933 Leontopolis in Augustamnica. It has had the following incumbents, of fitting...
number of Jews settled. The Land of Onias, which included the city of Leontopolis (Λεόντων πόλις), was located in the Heliopolite Nome (Hebrew: אֹן ʾOn...
may indicate that she was also identifying with Tefnut. Heliopolis and Leontopolis (now ell el-Muqdam) were the primary cult centres. At Heliopolis, Tefnut...
Sekhmet at Taremu in the Delta region, a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis.[citation needed] The first known unambiguous reference to Sekhmet is...
Libyan control began to erode as a rival dynasty in the delta arose in Leontopolis, and Kushites threatened from the south. Around 727 BC the Kushite king...
"Leontopolis" as another name for the same town. Both Wesseling and the contributor to Smith's Geography also believe that this is the Leontopolis spoken...
accompaniment of song in the Egyptian language", thus the Greek name of the city Leontopolis was derived.[citation needed] List of Egyptian deities Kangla Sha Nongshaba...
Onias IV, son of Onias III, fled to Egypt and built a Jewish Temple at Leontopolis (closed between 66–73 CE). Jason, son of Simon II, 175–172 BCE (the last...
temples located in Ancient Egypt The temple in Elephantine The temple in Leontopolis The term may also refer to places called "House of Yahweh" A synagogue...
native Egyptian rulers: Peftjaubast, Osorkon IV of Tanis, Iuput II of Leontopolis and Tefnakht of Sais. Piye established the Twenty-fifth Dynasty and appointed...
the submission of the kings of the Nile Delta including Iuput II of Leontopolis, Osorkon IV of Tanis and his former ally Nimlot at Hermopolis. Hermopolis...
Banha Tell Atrib, Attrib, Medeenet Ashaysh Capital of its nome Taremu (Leontopolis) 11th Bast and Sekhmet (cult center) Kafr Al Muqdam Leonto, Leontos,...
Canopus Damanhur Desouk Damietta El Mahalla El Kubra Kafr El Sheikh Leontopolis Mendes Mit Abu El Kom Mansoura Naucratis Pelusium Port Said Rosetta Sais...
Tents outside Gerra, the Tents inside Gerra, Thennesus, Panephusis. Leontopolis was the capital of Augustamnica Secunda. Ancient episcopal sees of Augustamnica...
native Egyptian rulers: Peftjaubast, Osorkon IV of Tanis, Iuput II of Leontopolis and Tefnakht of Sais. He established the Twenty-fifth Dynasty of "Black...
canal. The town was the seat of a Christian bishopric, a suffragan of Leontopolis, the capital and metropolitan see of the Roman province of Augustamnica...
Lemnus (Lemnos, Greece) Archdiocese of Leontopolis in Augustamnica (Leontopolis, Egypt) Archdiocese of Leontopolis in Pamphylia (Ulupınar, Turkey) Archdiocese...
supposes that the Diocese of Isaura Nova was early joined with that of Leontopolis, the more recent name of Isaura Palaea which is mentioned in all the...
led to the Maccabean Revolt. Josephus records that Onias IV went to Leontopolis in the Egyptian nome of Heliopolis with a significant following, and...
juxtaposition with the settlement of Isaura Palaea. It also bore the name Leontopolis, and in later days was included in the province of Lycaonia. Along with...