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El Faiyum map Under the Ptolemaic Kingdom , the city was called Ptolemais Euergétis ( Koinē Greek : Πτολεμαῒς Εὐεργέτις ) [ 12 ] until Ptolemy II Philadelphus (309–246 BC) renamed the city Arsinoë and the whole nome after the name of his sister-wife Arsinoe II (316–270 or 268), who was deified after her death as part ...
Site of Faiyum Oasis (directly southwest of Cairo, listed as Al-Fayyum) on a map of Egypt Map showing Faiyum Oasis. The Faiyum Oasis (Arabic: واحة الفيوم Waḥet El Fayyum) is a depression or basin in the desert immediately west of the Nile river, 62 miles south of Cairo, Egypt.
www.fayoum.gov.eg Faiyum Governorate ( Arabic : محافظة الفيوم Muḥāfāzah Al Fayyūm ) is one of the governorates of Egypt in the middle of the country. Its capital is the city of Faiyum , located about 81 mi (130 km) south west of Cairo .
Oasis of Fayoum, hydraulic remains and ancient cultural landscapes Faiyum: 2003 i, iv, v (cultural) Faiyum Oasis has been inhabited since prehistoric times and was one of the first areas of Northern Egypt where agriculture was practiced. There used to be a large lake in the antiquity.
The Book of the Faiyum is an ancient Egyptian "local monograph" celebrating the Faiyum region of Egypt and its patron deity, the crocodile god Sobek.It has also been classified generically as a "cult topographical priestly manual."
Lake Moeris (Ancient Greek: Μοῖρις, genitive Μοίριδος) was an ancient endorheic freshwater lake located in the Faiyum Oasis, 80 km (50 mi) southwest of Cairo, Egypt, which persists today at a fraction of its former size as the hypersaline Lake Qarun (Arabic: بركة قارون).
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Map of Fayum from 1895. Karanis (Koinē Greek: Καρανίς), located in what is now Kom Aushim, was an agricultural town in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt located in the northeast corner of the Faiyum Oasis. [1]