Ptolemais Theron
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Ptolemais Theron
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Ptolemais Theron was a marketplace on the African side of the Red Sea, whose location is now uncertain. According to Strabo (16.4.7), Ptolemais was founded as a base to support the hunting of elephants by a certain Eumedes, who had been sent there by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, king of Ptolemaic Egypt. Eumedes, "secretly enclosed a kind of peninsula with a ditch and a wall, and then, by courteous treatment of those who tried to hinder the work, actually won them over as friends instead of foes.". P
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Greco-Egyptian settlement on the Red Sea coast
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemais_Theron
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2024-04-13T18:54:33Z
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