Ptolemais may refer to:

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Ptolemais of Cyrene Ptolemais of Cyrene ( grc, Πτολεμαῒς ἡ Κυρηναία) was a music theorist, author of ''Pythagorean Principles of Music'' (Πυθαγορικὴ τῆς μουσικῆς στοιχείωσις). She lived perhaps in the 3rd centur ...

, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist * Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of

Demetrius the Fair Demetrius I the Fair or the Handsome ( gr, Δημήτριος ὁ Καλός, c. 285 BC–249 BC), known in modern ancient historical sources as Demetrius of Cyrene, was a Hellenistic king of Cyrene, who succeeded Magas I. Family Dem ...

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Africa

* Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, a city in modern-day Libya *

Ptolemais Euergetis Faiyum ( ar, الفيوم ' , borrowed from cop, ̀Ⲫⲓⲟⲙ or Ⲫⲓⲱⲙ ' from egy, pꜣ ym "the Sea, Lake") is a city in Middle Egypt. Located southwest of Cairo, in the Faiyum Oasis, it is the capital of the modern Faiyum ...

, modern-day Faiyum in Egypt * Ptolemais Hermiou or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, modern-day El Mansha in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt *

Ptolemais Theron Ptolemais Theron ( grc, Πτολεμαῒς Θηρῶν and Πτολεμαῒς ἡ τῶν θηρῶν) ('Ptolemais of the Hunts') was a marketplace on the African side of the Red Sea,Raoul McLaughlin, ''The Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean'', p. ...

, a city on the African coast of the Red Sea

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Ptolemais (Ionia) Lebedus or Lebedos ( grc, Λέβεδος) was one of the twelve cities of the Ionian League, located south of Smyrna, Klazomenai and neighboring Teos and before Ephesus, which is further south. It was on the coast, ninety stadia (16.65 km) t ...

, or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula *

Ptolemais (Macedonia) Ptolemaida ( el, Πτολεμαΐδα, Ptolemaïda, Katharevousa: Πτολεμαΐς, ''Ptolemaïs'') is a town and a former municipality in Kozani regional unit, Western Macedonia, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of th ...

, or Ptolemaida, in West Macedonia, Greece *

Ptolemais (Pamphylia) Ptolemais ( grc, Πτολεμαΐς) was a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia, inhabited during Hellenistic times. It was located between the Melas River and Coracesium Alanya (; ), formerly Alaiye, is a beach resort city and a di ...

, a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia * Ptolemais, a name that may have been given to

Larisa (Troad) Larisa ( grc, Λάρισα, Larisa), or Larissa, was an ancient Greek city in the south-west of the Troad region of Anatolia. Its surrounding territory was known in Greek as the (''Larisaia''). It has been located on a small rise by the coast no ...

, Anatolia *

Ptolemais in Phoenicia Ptolemais was an ancient port city on the Canaanite coast in the region of Palestine (region), Palestine, in the location of the present-day city of Acre, Israel. It was also called Ptolemais in Canaan (or ''Akko'', ''Ake'', or ''Akre'' in Canaani ...

, later Acre, in modern-day Israel

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