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Ptolemais
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Ptolemais

Ancient city · Libya

Abandoned
unknown
Founded
—
Population
—
Coordinates
32.709, 20.951
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Why it was abandoned

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Detected automatically from the text: one of the ancient capitals of Cyrenaica

History

Ptolemais was one of the five cities that formed the Pentapolis of Cyrenaica, the others being Cyrene, Euesperides, Tauchira/Teuchira, and Apollonia.

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