Coma ( grc-gre, Κομά, ''Komá'') was a village near
Heracleopolis Magna in
Lower Egypt
Lower Egypt ( ar, مصر السفلى '; ) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur. Historically, ...
in
late antiquity. It was famed as the birthplace of
St. Anthony, whose
hagiography
A hagiography (; ) is a biography of a saint or an ecclesiastical leader, as well as, by extension, an adulatory and idealized biography of a founder, saint, monk, nun or icon in any of the world's religions. Early Christian hagiographies migh ...
claimed his family was wealthy and owned sizable estates in the area in the early 3rd century AD.
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Former populated places in Egypt
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