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People

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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 Ptolemy I Soter (; gr, Πτολεμαῖος Σωτήρ, ''Ptolemaîos Sōtḗr'' "Ptolemy the Savior"; c. 367 BC – January 282 BC) was a Macedonian Greek general, historian and companion of Alexander the Great from the Kingdom of Macedon ...
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 ...


Places


Africa

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Ptolemais, Cyrenaica 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 Apolloni ...
, a city in modern-day Libya * Ptolemais Euergetis, modern-day Faiyum in Egypt *
Ptolemais Hermiou Ptolemais Hermiou, or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, was a city and metropolitan archbishopric in Greco-Roman Egypt and remains a Catholic titular see. Today, the city of El Mansha ()-Bsoi () in the Sohag Governorate is located where the ancient city ...
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


Elsewhere

* Ptolemais (Ionia), or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula * Ptolemais (Macedonia), or Ptolemaida, in West Macedonia, Greece * Ptolemais (Pamphylia), 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


See also

* * Ptolemy (disambiguation) * Ptolemaic Kingdom *
Ptolemaiida Ptolemaiida is a taxon of wolf-sized afrothere mammals that lived in northern and eastern Africa during the Paleogene. The oldest fossils are from the latest Eocene strata of the Jebel Qatrani Formation, near the Fayum oasis in Egypt. A tooth is ...
, a taxon of extinct wolf-like mammals {{disambiguation, geo, given name