Place:Ptolemais, Banghāzī, Libya

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NamePtolemais
Alt namesPtolemaidasource: Wikipedia
Ptolemais Cyremaicasource: ARLIS/NA: Ancient Site Names (1995)
Ptolemaïssource: GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
Tolemaidesource: GRI Photo Study, Authority File (1989)
Tolmetasource: Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer (1961); USBGN: Foreign Gazetteers; Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Tulmaythahsource: Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984)
Ţulmaythahsource: BHA, Authority file (2003-)
Ṭulmaythahsource: Getty Vocabulary Program
TypeCity
Coordinates32.7°N 20.917°E
Located inBanghāzī, Libya
source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names


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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 Apollonia (now Susa).

Its ruins are at a small village in modern Libya called Tolmeita (Arabic طلميتة), after the ancient name.

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