Ptolemaic Kingdom
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Ryan Horne
Creators: Ryan Horne
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 05, 2024 01:09 PM
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History
The Ptolemaic Kingdom was a Hellenistic kingdom founded by Ptolemy I Soter, which was primarily centered on Egypt. It was absorbed into the Roman Empire in 30 BCE following Octavian's victory over Mark Antony and Cleopatra VII Philopator at the battle of Actium in 31 BCE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/463803480
33.412827286, 25.3196302637
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- Ptolemaic Kingdom part of (regional) Ancient Egypt (region) (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Aegyptus (Roman imperial province) succeeds Ptolemaic Kingdom (30 BC - AD 300)
- Alexandria capital of Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Arsinoe/Taucheira part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Berenice part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Chersonesus part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Cyrene part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Ephesus/Arsinoe(ia) part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Erythrai part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Memphis part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Philae part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Ptolemais/Barkes Limen part of (administrative) Ptolemaic Kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
state (polity)
Pleiades
Ryan Horne, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ptolemaic Kingdom: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/463803480> [accessed: 15 October 2024]
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