Historical place profile
Berenice/Berenike
An ancient port city on the west coast of the Red Sea in modern Egypt, Berenice/Berenike was founded in 275 BCE by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who named it after his mother, Berenice I of Egypt.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:785986
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:785986
- Place type
- archaeological-site, port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 23.910625, 35.474819
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient port city on the west coast of the Red Sea in modern Egypt, Berenice/Berenike was founded in 275 BCE by Ptolemy II Philadelphus, who named it after his mother, Berenice I of Egypt.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 80 inset Berenice
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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