Name | Ptolemais |
Alt names | Ptolemaida | source: Wikipedia | | Ptolemais Cyremaica | source: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995) | | Ptolemaïs | source: GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998) | | Tolemaide | source: GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989) | | Tolmeta | source: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) | | Tulmaythah | source: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984) | | Ţulmaythah | source: BHA, Authority file (2003-) | | Ṭulmaythah | source: Getty Vocabulary Program |
Type | City |
Coordinates | 32.7°N 20.917°E |
Located in | Banghāzī, Libya |
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Ptolemais (Greek: Πτολεμαΐς) was one of the five cities that formed the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica, the others being Cyrene, Euesperides (later known as Berenice, now Benghazi), Tauchira/Teuchira (later Arsinoe, and now Tocra), and Apollonia (now Susa).
Its ruins are at a small village in modern Libya called Tolmeita (Arabic طلميتة), after the ancient name.
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