Ptolemais , an Ancient Greek place name and feminine personal name, may refer to Places Acre, Israel , once named Antiochia Ptolemais after Ptolemy I Soter Crocodilopolis , an Egyptian city renamed Ptolemais Euergetis by Ptolemy III Euergetes Ptolemaida , a Greek city in Northern Greece, named after Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemais Cyrenaica , a city in present day Libya probably named after Ptolemy III Euergetes Ptolemais Hermiou , a Greek colony established in Egypt by Ptolemy I Soter Ptolemais Theron , a city on the African coast of the Red Sea, established by Ptolemy II Philadelphus Persons Ptolemais of Cyrene , a third century BC mathematician and musical theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Demetrius the Fair See also Ptolemy disambiguation disambig ca Ptolemais de Ptolemais el es Ptolemaida fr Ptol ma s it Tolemaide disambigua arz pt Ptolemais sh Ptolemaida ... more details
Orphan date February 2009 Helladius of Ptloemais was a Christian bishop of Ptolemais now Acre, Israel . He was present at the First Council of Ephesus 431 . References http www.newadvent.org cathen 12553b.htm Catholic Encyclopedia, s.v. Ptolemais Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category 5th century bishops Category Year of birth missing Category Year of death missing Category People from Acre, Israel bishop stub ... more details
Secundus of Ptolemais was a 4th century bishop of Ptolemais Cyrenaica Ptolemais , excommunicated after the First Council of Nicaea for his nontrinitarianism . ref Hans05 Hanson 2005 pp. http books.google.com books?id tclFM nRh2IC&pg PA162 162&ndash 163 . Two bishops who refused to sign the Creed, Secundus of Ptolemais and Theonas of Marmarike, were deposed by the Council and exiled by the Emperor. ref See also Arianism Arian controversy Timeline of Christianity Era of the Seven Ecumenical Councils Timeline of Christianity Era of the Seven Ecumenical Councils Notes references References cite book title The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God The Arian Controversy 318&ndash 381 url http books.google.com books?id tclFM nRh2IC first R. P. C. last Hanson authorlink Richard P.C. Hanson year 2005 origyear 1988 publisher T&T Clark Continuum International Publishing Group Continuum isbn 9780567030924 ref Hans05 accessdate 2009 05 25 bishop stub Category 4th century bishops ... more details
For other ancient cities of the same name Ptolemais disambiguation Image Ptolemais Byzantine Cistern.JPG thumb The Byzantine Cistern Ptolemais or Ptolemaida was one of the ancient capitals of Cyrenaica . It was probably named after Ptolemy III Euergetes . Its Latin name in Roman times was Tolmeta , from which the modern Libya n town of Tolmeitha Arabic derives its name. ref name Jane Soames Nickerson 1961 cite book title A Short History of North Africa date 1961 author Jane Soames Nickerson ref . The town was most probably founded in 7th century BC 7th or 6th century BC by settlers from Barca Barka . Soon it became one of the founding city state s of the Pentapolis federation. In 331 BC the union was dissolved after all of its towns surrendered to Alexander the Great . After his death the area formed part of the Ptolemaic Egypt Ptolemaic empire . In early 1st century the region was conquered by Roman Empire Rome and became a separate province. Roman Tolmeta had no local water supply, but Roman architects built a conduit from the hills and stored the water in eighteen huge galleries under the forum, about fourteen feet high by ten feet wide. These are in perfect repair and were rediscovered during the Italian occupation. In the course of military operations against rebels, it was discovered ... could easily be hidden in them ref name Jane Soames Nickerson 1961 . Image Ptolemais Villa of Columns.JPG ... , Taucheira Arsinoe , Benghazi Berenice , Balagrae and Barca . Ptolemais survived the tragedy in relatively ..., Cyrenaica External links http www.ptolemais.pl index.php en EN home Ptolemais home page Polish, English ... www.ptolemais.pl index.php en EN non destructive archaeology Ptolemais survey, Libya nondestructive archaeology http www.libyaninvestment.com libya travel ptolemais.php Ptolemais City coord 32 42 N ... in Libya Category Greek colonies ar de Ptolemais Kyrenaika es Ptolemaida Cirenaica fr Ptol ma s Cyr na que it Tolemaide pl Ptolemaida pt Ptolemais Cirenaica fi Ptolemais Kyrenaika ... more details
Ptolemais Theron translated, Ptolemais of the Hunts was a marketplace on the Africa n side of the Red Sea , whose location is now uncertain. According to Strabo 16.4.7 , Ptolemais was founded as a base to support the hunting of elephant s by a certain Eumedes, who had been sent there by Ptolemy II of Egypt Ptolemy Philadelphus , king of Ptolemaic Egypt. Eumedes, secretly enclosed a kind of peninsula with a ditch and a wall, and then, by courteous treatment of those who tried to hinder the work, actually won them over as friends instead of foes. Strabo 16.4.7 . Ptolemais was only one of a series of such elephant hunting stations along the Red Sea coast of Africa, Adulis being perhaps originally another. The early Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemies had seen the value of war elephant s by the military strength of the Seleucid dynasty Seleucids . Cut off from any possibility of acquiring Indian elephant s, they founded and actively sought to capture them from the neighboring regions of Africa . Although these animals helped in the Battle of Raphia , they proved unstable and the African elephant African species were intimidated by the Asian species, which led to the Egyptians eventually abandoning the use of these animals in war. Unlike most of the stations the Ptolemies established to the south of their kingdom, Ptolemais had enough fertile land immediately around it to sustain it as a town. By the time the Periplus of the Erythraean Sea was written mid 1st century , it had clearly declined in importance. The writer notes that it had no harbor, and can only be reached by small boats ch .... Second series. London Hakluyt Society. ref Ancient authorities are vague on the location of Ptolemais ... by Z skal s, the king of Aksum Pliny the Elder N.H. 6.168 notes that Ptolemais was close to Lake Monoleus. G.W.B. Huntingford notes that Ptolemais has been identified both with the locales of Arqiqo ... of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea , p.144 n.2. London the Hakluyt Society, 1989 . ref Ptolemais Theron ... more details
name blank1 info website footnotes Ptolemais Hermiou was a city in Greco Roman Egypt , established ... in Egypt egypt geo stub ar de Ptolemais Hermeiou fr Ptol ma s gypte it Tolemaide di Tebaide pt Ptolemais Hermiou sv Ptolemais Hermiou ... more details
Ptolemais of Cyrene lang grc was a harmonic theorist, author of Pythagorean Principles of Music . She lived perhaps in the 3rd century BC, and certainly not after the first century AD. ref Rocconi 2003, p. 101 ref Life Almost nothing is known about her life her work is known only from references in Porphyry philosopher Porphyry s http www.toxolyros.gr index.php?option com content&task view&id 5663&Itemid 857 commentary on Ptolemy Music Ptolemy s Harmonics . ref Rocconi 2003, p. 99 ref She shares the same place of origin Cyrene, Libya as Arete of Cyrene a female philosopher of the Cyrenaic school, whose doctrines included Pythagoreanism Pythagorean elements and Eratosthenes whose many interests included music theory . ref Rocconi 2003, p. 100 ref She is one of several women writers associated with Pythagoreanism. ref Rocconi 2003, p. 99 ref Work In her work, written in the form of a catechism , she commented on the music theoretical debate concerning the proper roles of reason and sensory experience in the study of music. Despite her apparent adherence to Pythagoreanism, a school whose theorists the canonici put music on a rational and mathematical basis, there is no apparent hostility in her citations of the empiricist followers of Aristoxenus the musici perhaps the methodological division was not a stark absolute during her period or from her point of view. ref Rocconi 2003, pp. 104 5 ref Ptolemais also makes reference to musicologists who gave equal importance to perception and reason, preferring to see Aristoxenus himself as opposed to his followers in this light, and even stressing the compatible role of perception .... In this same passage, Ptolemais criticizes the extreme partisans of both schools, the Pythagoreans ... Press, 2009, Chapter 7 Aisth sis and Logos A Single Continent DEFAULTSORT Ptolemais Of Cyrene Category ... de Ptolemais von Kyrene ... more details
The Paleontological and Historical Museum of Ptolemais is a museum in Ptolemaida , Greece . It is also known as the Anthropological and Paleontological Museum of Ptolemais . External links http www.agro tour.net web guest art culture topicarts view 77810 216 272? topicarts redirect 2Fweb 2Fguest 2Fart culture 2F 257E 2Ftopic 2F216 2F272 www.agro tour.net http www.ptolemaida.gr Mousio.html Municipality of Ptolemais in Greek http www.cprm.gov.br 33IGC 1201722.html International Geological Congress of Oslo 2008 coord missing Greece Category Kozani Prefecture Category Natural history museums in Greece Greece museum stub ... more details
Helladius may refer to Alexander Helladius , Greek scholar of the 18th century Helladius of Kiev , Ukrainian saint Helladius of Auxerre , Christian bishop and saint Helladius of Caesarea , Christian bishop Helladius of Ptolemais , Christian bishop Helladius of Tarsus , Christian bishop hndis ca Hel ladi ... more details
Tolmeitha , Tolometa , or Tolmeita Arabic is a small town in the northern Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya , some 110 km 70 m east of Benghazi . Its name appears to be derived, through the Latin Tolmeta , from the Greek name of the classical city whose ruins are nearby, Ptolemais Cyrenaica Ptolemais . Interestingly, the ancient Libyan city of al Marj ref http ar.wikipedia.org wiki D8 A7 D9 84 D9 85 D8 B1 D8 AC D9 84 D9 8A D8 A8 D9 8A D8 A7 ref had its own special currency, which was minted in the year 525 BC. It was found in the excavations of antiquities in the Museums of Tolmeitha and Cyrene. coord missing Libya References Reflist Al Marj Category Populated places in Libya Category Cyrenaica Libya geo stub ar fr Tolmeitha fi Tolmeitha ... more details
The Bishop of Acre was a suffragan bishop of the Crusader Archbishop of Tyre . Acre is present day Akko . List of bishops of Acre Hugh of le Mans ? c.1150 Frederick, Archbishop of Tyre William 1172 Joscius, Archbishop of Tyre c. 1187 Rufinus, killed at the Battle of Hattin John of Noyon , chancellor to Baldwin IX of Flanders , during the Fourth Crusade c. 1208 Florent ref Steven Runciman , A History of the Crusades III, p.132. ref 1216 1228 Jacques de Vitry Ralph Notes references Category Crusades de Ptolemais in Phoenicia it Sede titolare di Tolemaide di Fenicia ... more details
for the capital of Afghanistan Kabul Cabul is the name of two places in History of ancient Israel and Judah ancient Israel mentioned in the Hebrew Bible A district in the north west of Galilee , near Tyre Lebanon Tyre , containing twenty cities given to Hiram by Solomon as a reward for various services rendered to him in building the temple. 1 Kings 9 13 Hiram was not pleased with the gift, however, the name signifying good for nothing . Josephus Ant. viii. 5, 3 interprets Cabul as meaning what does not please in Phoenician language Phoenician but doubt has been cast on this interpretation of the term. One of the landmarks on the boundary of Asher , Joshua 19 27 now the Kabul Israel Kabul Local council Israel local council in Israel , 9 or convert 10 mi km east of Acre, Israel Acco . Josephus Vita, 43 refers to it as the village of Chabolo situated in the confines of Ptolemais . JewishEncyclopedia Category Hebrew Bible places ... more details
Crocodilopolis or Krokodilopolis Greek language Greek polytonic or Ptolemais Euergetis or Arsinoe Greek polytonic or Krialon ref http pleiades.stoa.org places 736948 Krokodilopolis Ptolemais Euergetis ref was an ancient city in the Heptanomis , Egypt , the capital of Arsinoites nome Egypt nome , on the western bank of the Nile , between the river and the Lake Moeris , southwest of Memphis, Egypt Memphis , in lat. 29 N. Its native Ancient Egyptian name was Shedyet . ref http www.thekeep.org kunoichi kunoichi themestream sobek.html Sobek, God of Crocodiles, Power, Protection and Fertility Bot generated title ref ref http gtae.users.btopenworld.com godsS.htm Realm Of The Gods Bot generated title ref ref http www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk sobek.html Sobek Bot generated title ref ref http users.bigpond.net.au bstone egyptian gods.htm Egyptian Gods Bot generated title ref In the Pharaonic Egypt Pharaonic era the city was the most significant center for the cult of Sobek , the crocodile god. In consequence, the Greeks named it Crocodilopolis , Crocodile City , from the particular reverence paid by its inhabitants to crocodiles. The city worshipped a sacred crocodile , named Petsuchos , that was embellished with gold and Gemstone gems . The crocodile lived in a special temple , with sand , a pond and food . When the Petsuchos died, it was replaced by another. After the city passed into the hands of the Ptolemies , the city was renamed Ptolemais Euergetis . The city was renamed Arsinoe by Ptolemy Philadelphus to honor Arsinoe II of Egypt , his sister and wife, during the 3rd century BCE. The region in which Crocodilopolis stood &ndash the modern Al Fayyum Governorate Fayyum &ndash was the most fertile in Egypt. Besides the usual cereal s and vegetable s of the Nile valley, it abounded in Phoenix dactylifera dates , ficus fig s, rose s, and its vineyard ... , Map 75 D2 Krokodilopolis Ptolemais Euergetis and Map by Map Directory, p. 1127. http pleiades.stoa.org ... more details
otheruses File Dioecesis Aegypti 400 AD.png thumb right 300px Map of the late Roman Diocese of Egypt , with Thebais in the south. The Thebaid or Thebais lang el , Th ba da or lang el , Th ba s is the region of ancient Egypt containing the thirteen southernmost nome Egypt nomes of Upper Egypt , from Abydos, Egypt Abydos to Aswan . It acquired its name from its proximity to the ancient Egyptian capital of Thebes, Egypt Thebes . In Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemaic Egypt , the Thebaid formed a single administrative district under the Epistrategos of Thebes, who was also responsible for overseeing navigation in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean . During the Roman Empire , Diocletian created the province of Thebais , guarded by the Roman legion legions Legio I Maximiana I Maximiana Thebanorum and Legio II Flavia Constantia II Flavia Constantia . This was later divided in Upper lang la Thebais Superior , lang el Polytonic , An Th ba s , comprising the southern half with its capital at Thebes, and Lower or Nearer lang la Thebais Inferior , lang el Polytonic , Th ba s Engist , comprising the northern half with capital at Ptolemais Hermiou Ptolemais . Around the 5th century, since it was a desert , the Thebaid became a place of retreat of a number of Christian hermit s, and was the birthplace of Pachomius . ref cite web url http www.newadvent.org cathen 14561a.htm title Thebaid work Catholic Encyclopedia ref In Christian art , the Thebaid was represented as a place with numerous monks. References reflist Late Roman Provinces state collapsed Nuttall coord missing Egypt Category Geography of ancient Egypt Category Ancient Roman provinces in Africa Category Roman Egypt Category Ptolemaic Empire Ancient Egypt stub Egypt geo stub br Thebaidos ca Tebaida de Thebais gypten es Tebaida Egipto eo Tebaido kristana ermitujo fr Th ba de gypte it Tebaide Egitto ja pl Tebaida pt Tebaida ru sv Thebais ... more details
operating on an abandoned section of Thessaly Railways Preservation Thessaly Railways . clear Ptolemais mining railways Ptolemais industrial railway The economy of the area around Ptolemais is largely ... Ptolemais. In addition to the public rail network, industries the area were served by a dedicated ... more details
Belus or Belos is a small river in north western Israel , where according to legend, mentioned by Isidore of Seville in his http penelope.uchicago.edu Thayer L Roman Texts Isidore 16 .html 16 Etymologiae glass glass making was invented. This river is identified with what is now called the Na aman River lang he , near Acre, Israel Acre . Pliny the Elder N.H. 5.19 , using the name Pacida , mentions that the river flowed from Lake Cendevia now below Mount Carmel for five miles 8 km to the sea near Ptolemais Ace , and that it was celebrated for its vitrous sands. Today s Na am n River originates from springs near Tel Afek Ein Afek , primarily Ein Nymphit , and flows through the Zevulun valley to the Acre, Israel Acre Bay. The Ein Afek springs originally caused swamps to be formed. These swamps were dried up in the early 1900 s, and replaced by a small nature reserve around a small lake. The Na am n River is approximately 10 KM long, and flows from south to north, before emptying into the Mediterranean sea . coord 32 52 37.56 N 35 6 23.9 E display title Category Rivers of Israel cs Nachal Na aman es R o Naaman he ru ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 March 3 Eastern Orthodox liturgics March 3 Eastern Orthodox liturgical calendar March 5 Eastern Orthodox liturgics March 5 Fixed commemorations All commemorations below are observed on March 16 by Old Calendarists Saints Venerable Gerasimus of Jordan 475 Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow 1303 Martyr s Paul, his sister Juliana, and Quadratus, Acacius, and Stratonicus, at Ptolemais in Syria 273 Saint Gregory of Constantius in Cyprus , bishop Saint James the Faster of Phoenicia Blessed Basil of Rostov Basil , Prince of Rostov 1238 Saint Gregory of Assa Gregory , Bishop of Assa near Ephesus 1150 Saint Gerasimus, monk of Vologda 1178 Venerable Iosaph of Snetogorsk 1299 Venerable Basil of Mirozh Monasteries 1299 Other commemorations Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia Wenceslaus , Prince of the Czech people Czechs 932 Repose of Schemamonk Mark of Glinsk Hermitage 1893 DEFAULTSORT March 4 Eastern Orthodox Liturgics Category Eastern Orthodox liturgical days March 04 ... more details
Psote 300 , also known as Bisada , Besada , Abashadi , Abassadius , or Beshada , was a bishop of Ptolemais in Upper Egypt . He was martyr ed by beheading at Antinoe . His feast day is observed on December 23 in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria Coptic Church or on December 21 in some other Churches ref http nominis.cef.fr contenus saint 9739 Saint Psote.html fr Nominis Saint Psot ref . References Holweck, F. G. A Biographical Dictionary of the Saints . St. Louis, MO B. Herder Book Co. 1924. references Persondata Metadata see Wikipedia Persondata . NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT DESCRIPTION DATE OF BIRTH PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH PLACE OF DEATH Category Christian saints in unknown century Category Christian martyrs of the Roman era Category Egyptian saints Category Coptic Orthodox saints Category Egyptian hermits Category Egyptian bishops Category Coptic Orthodox bishops Category Egyptian Roman Catholic saints Category Year of death missing saint stub fr Psot ... more details
Dr. Spyros B. Pavlides . is Greece Greek geologist , professor of the Department of Geology and Physical Geography, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki , Greece, vice president of the School of Geology, AUTh As of 2007 lc on . ref http geonet.geo.auth.gr en dioikhsh.htm School of Geology Administration retrieved September 27, 2007 ref His primary interests include neotectonics , paleoseismology , archaeoseismology , and use of geological data for seismic hazard assessment. His Ph.D. subject 1985 was Neotectonic evolution of the Florina Vegoritis Ptolemais basin W. Macedonia, Greece web page http users.auth.gr pavlides Bibliography Yildirim Dilek and Spyros Pavlides 2006 Postcollisional tectonics and magmatism in the Mediterranean region and Asia , Geological Society of America , ISBN 978 0 8137 2409 6 Mountrakis D., Kilias A., Pavlides S. and others 1999 Neotectonic Map of Greece , University of Thessaloniki. Pavlides, S. B. 1996 Palaeoseismology a branch of Neotectonics linking Geological, Seismological and Archaeological data. Fitch Laboratory, British School at Athens. Athens Pavlides, S, Mountrakis, D. 1986 . Neotectonics an Introduction to Recent Geological Structures. University Studio Press. Thessaloniki. Greece. gr icon References references DEFAULTSORT Pavlides, Spyros B. Category Greek scientists Category Living people Category Greek geologists ... more details
Diocletianopolis may refer to a number of places in the ancient world. Diocletianopolis in Palaestina , now a titular see , was in Palaestina Prima . This city is mentioned by Hierocles Synecdemus , 719, 2 , Georgius Cyprius ed. Heinrich Gelzer , 1012 , and in some Notitiae Episcopatuum , as a suffragan of Caesarea titular see Caesarea . Its native name is unknown, and its site has not been identified. One bishop is known, Elisaeus, in 359 Lequien , Oriens Christianus , III, 646 . Diocletianopolis in Thracia was a suffragan see of Philippopolis , in Thrace . The Bulgaria n village Hisarya, Bulgaria Hisarya is built at its site, on the ruins of the ancient city. Two bishops are mentioned, Cyriacus in 431, and Epictetus in 451 and 458. A third, Elias, in 553, is doubtful Lequien, op. cit., I, 1161 . Diocletianopolis in Thebaide was a suffragan of Ptolemais in Thebais Secunda Parthey, Notit. Episc., I . This city also mentioned by Hierocles op. cit., 732, 3 , and by Georgius Cyprius, 772. Gelzer thinks that Diocletianopolis is a later name of Apollinopolis Minor , the Coptic Kos Bebir , and the Arabian K s , still existing near Keft Coptus . mile Am lineau , G ographie de l Egypte , 490, 573, 576 One bishop of Apollinopolis Minor is known, Pabiscus, mentioned in 431 Lequien, II, 603 . References reflist Attribution Catholic wstitle Diocletianopolis geodis Category Titular sees de Diocletianopolis el ... more details
Infobox Saint name Saints Paul and Juliana birth date death date ca. 270 feast day 17 August venerated in Roman Catholic Church Eastern Orthodox Church image imagesize 250px caption birth place death place Ptolemais , Palestine titles Martyrs beatified date beatified place beatified by canonized date Pre Congregation canonized place canonized by attributes patronage major shrine suppressed date issues Paul and Juliana were brother and sister who suffered martyrdom ref http saints.sqpn.com saintjdo.htm Saint Juliana Patron Saint Index ref , at the hands of Aurelian , in 270 ref http saints.sqpn.com saintp85.htm Saint Paul Patron Saint Index ref . Juliana is one of the 140 Colonnade saints which adorn St. Peter s Square . References Reflist DEFAULTSORT Paul And Juliana Category 270 deaths Category Roman Catholic saints Category Eastern Orthodox saints Category 3rd century Christian martyr saints Saint stub ... more details
Eastern Christianity Synesius lang el c. 373 c. 414 , a Greeks Greek bishop of Ptolemais Cyrenaica Ptolemais in the Ancient Libya Libya n Pentapolis after 410, was born of wealthy parents, who claimed descent from Sparta n kings, at Balagrae Al Bayda Libya Al Bayda city now ref http catalogue.nla.gov.au Record 2192369 Details?lookfor cyrenaica&max 128&offset 44 National Library of Australia ref near Cyrene, Libya Cyrene between 370 and 375. Life While still a youth 393 he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria , where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonism Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia of Alexandria Hypatia . Between 395 and 399 he spent some time in Athens . ref Synesius, Epistulae 54,136. ref In 398 he was chosen as an envoy to the imperial court in Constantinople by Cyrene and the whole Pentapolis. ref De regno 3 De insomniis 9 Hymns III.431. ref He went to the capital in occasion of the delivery of the aurum coronarium ref De regno 3. ref and his task was to obtain tax remissions for his country. ref De providentiae 3. ref In Constantinople he obtained the patronage of the powerful praetorian prefect Aurelianus consul 400 Aurelianus . Synesius composed and addressed to Emperor Arcadius a speech entitled De regno , full of topical advice as to the studies of a wise ruler ref Konstantinos D.S. Paidas, He thematike ton byzantinon katoptron hegemonos tes proimes kai meses byzantines periodoy 398 1085 . Symbole sten politike theoria ton Byzantinon, Athens 2005, passim. ref , but also containing a bold statement that the emperor s first priority must be a war on corruption and a war on interpenetration of barbarians in byzantine army. His three years stay ... to be bishop of Ptolemais, and, after long hesitation on personal and doctrinal grounds, ref Epistulae ... politike theoria ton Byzantinon, Athens 2005, passim. ib ., Why Did Synesius Become Bishop of Ptolemais ... Century Dictionary S Synesius, bp. of Ptolemais Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature ... more details
File Ancient Egypt map en.svg thumb 200px Map of Lower Egypt Lower and Upper Egypt Upper Egypt Lang ar Sa id Misr is the strip of land, on both sides of the Nile Nile valley , that extends from the Cataracts of the Nile cataract boundaries of modern day Aswan north to the area between El Ayait and Zawyet Dahshur which is south of modern day Cairo . The northern section of Upper Egypt, between El Ayait and Sohag is sometimes known as Middle Egypt . The designation Upper Egypt is most frequently used as a division for Ancient Egypt . Modern inhabitants of Upper Egypt are known as Sa idi s they generally speak Sa idi Arabic . Upper Egypt was known as Ta Shemau ref Ermann & Grapow, op.cit. Wb 5, 227.4 14 ref which means the land of reeds. ref Ermann & Grapow, op.cit. Wb 4, 477.9 11 ref It was divided into twenty two districts called Nome Egypt nome s. ref The Encyclopedia Americana Grolier Incorporated, 1988, p.34 ref The first nome was roughly where modern Aswan is and the twenty second was at modern Atfih Atfih Aphroditopolis , just to the south of Cairo . History The main city of predynastic Upper Egypt was Nekhen Greek Hierakonpolis , ref Bard, op. cit. , p.371 ref whose patron deity was the vulture goddess Nekhbet . ref David, op.cit. , p.149 ref For most of pharaonic Egypt s history, Thebes, Egypt Thebes was the administrative center of Upper Egypt. After its devastation by the Assyrians its importance declined. Under the Ptolemies the city of Ptolemais Hermiou Ptolemais ref Ptolemais on the Nile is not to be confused with Acre, Israel Greek and Roman periods Ptolemais in Phoenicia or Ptolemais Theron in the Sudan region Sudan . ref took over the role of capital of Upper Egypt. ref Chauveau, op.cit. , p.68 ref Upper Egypt was represented by the tall White Crown Hedjet , and its symbols were the flowering lotus and the sedge. In the 11th century, large numbers of Pastoralism pastoralists , known as Hilalians, fled Upper Egypt and moved westward into Libya ... more details
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