Look up ptolemais in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Ptolemais may refer to: Ptolemais of Cyrene, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist...
Ptolemais Hermiou, or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, was a city and metropolitan archbishopric in Greco-Roman Egypt and remains a Catholic titular see. Today...
the present-day city of Acre, Israel. It was also called Ptolemais in Canaan and Ake-Ptolemais (or Akko, Ake, or Akre in Canaanite Language). It was an...
Ptolemais Theron (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῒς Θηρῶν and Πτολεμαῒς ἡ τῶν θηρῶν) ('Ptolemais of the Hunts') was a marketplace on the African side of the Red...
Helladius of Ptolemais (Greek: Έλλάδιος) was a Christian bishop of Ptolemais (now Acre, Israel). He was present at the First Council of Ephesus (431)...
Secundus of Ptolemais was a 4th-century bishop of Ptolemais, excommunicated after the First Council of Nicaea for his nontrinitarianism. Secundus, was...
Ptolemais of Cyrene (Ancient Greek: Πτολεμαῒς ἡ Κυρηναία) was a music theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music (Πυθαγορικὴ τῆς μουσικῆς στοιχείωσις)...
by two demes of Leontis and one from Aigeis. The Egyptian Phyle XIII. Ptolemais, named after Ptolemy III Euergetes was created in 224/223 BC and the Boule...
immediately affected, even though Ptolemy I established the Greek colony of Ptolemais Hermiou to be its capital. But within a century, Greek influence had spread...
(/sɪˈniːsiəs/; Greek: Συνέσιος; c. 373 – c. 414) was a Greek bishop of Ptolemais in ancient Libya, a part of the Western Pentapolis of Cyrenaica after...
Ptolemaida (Greek: Πτολεμαΐδα, romanized: Ptolemaïda, Katharevousa: Πτολεμαΐς, Ptolemaïs) is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western...
Maximianopolis in Thebaide (Qena) Philae Pselchis (Temple of Dakka) Ptolemais in Thebaide (Ptolemais Hermiou), the Metropolitan Archbishopric Syene (Aswan) Tentyris...
city of Ptolemais. While Alexander went ahead to besiege the city, Zoilus of Dora took the opportunity to see if he could relieve Ptolemais in hopes...
Gk. has, Ptolemais; the Syriac has, Acu. Mr. Jer. Jones, in his work on the Canon, 1798, contends that the use of the name Acu, for Ptolemais, is a decisive...
minus Tyre and Sidon, which remained in Roman hands. She also received Ptolemais Akko (modern Acre, Israel), a city that was established by Ptolemy II...
replaced by another. Under the Ptolemaic Kingdom, the city was called Ptolemais Euergétis (Koinē Greek: Πτολεμαῒς Εὐεργέτις). until Ptolemy II Philadelphus...
Siege of Acre, also Siege of Akka/Akko, may refer to: Siege of Acre (1104), following the First Crusade Siege of Acre (1189–1191), during the Third Crusade...
It is also known as the Anthropological and Paleontological Museum of Ptolemais. In 1977, Isaak Pandelidis, the owner of a sandpit not far from the village...
who moved its population to Ephesus in 292 BC. At some point, the name Ptolemais (Πτολεμαΐς) was bestowed on the town, probably by Ptolemy III Euergetes...
astronomer Theodore Meliteniotes wrote that Ptolemy's birthplace was Ptolemais Hermiou, a Greek city in the Thebaid region of Egypt (now El Mansha, Sohag...
on the Red Sea Coast near Ptolemais Theron. The lake was probably a coastal lagoon. According to Pliny the city of Ptolemais Theron was situated adjacent...
Africa. Following the Crete earthquake of 365, the capital was moved to Ptolemais. After the Empire's division, Cyrenaica became part of the East Roman...
v t e Hellenistic/Macedonian colonies Africa Alexandria Ptolemais Hermiou Asia Ai-Khanoum Alexandretta Antioch Apamea Alexandria Arachosia Alexandria...
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