Berenice/Berenike
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jun 26, 2024 04:25 PM
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History
An ancient port city on the west coast of the Red Sea in modern Egypt, Berenice/Berenike was founded in 275 BCE by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who named it after his mother, Berenice I of Egypt.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/785986
23.91062525, 35.47481885
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Medinet-el Haras (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Centerpoint of visible ancient remains of Berenice (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Berenice (330 BC - AD 640)
- Berenice Troglodytica (English, modern)
- Berenice/Berenike connection Akathartos Kolpos (unspecified date range)
- Via Hadriana connection Berenice/Berenike (unspecified date range)
settlement, port, archaeological site
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 80 inset Berenice
- C-D 2 40
- Marchant 2024
- Meredith 1957
- Sidebotham 1995 5-11
- Sidebotham 1995; Sidebotham 1995a
- Sidebotham 1996
- Sidebotham 1997
- Sidebotham 1998
- Sidebotham 2000
- Sidebotham 2011
- Sidebotham and Wendrich 1994-2001
- The Berenike Project
- ToposText Berenike (Red Sea)
- Wendrich 2007
- Wikipedia (English) Berenice Troglodytica
- Woźniak 2021
- Woźniak 2022
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 inset Berenice
The Barrington Atlas reports: Bender el-Kebir / Medinet el-Haras.
T. Wilfong, S.E. Sidebotham, J. Keenan, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, David Meadows, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Berenice/Berenike: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/785986> [accessed: 04 November 2024]
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