Phakoussa
settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD
The modern city of Faqous in the southeastern portion of the Nile delta is thought to have been built atop an ancient city known to the Greeks as Phakoussa. Strabo identifies it as the terminus of an ancient canal connecting to the Red Sea.
- Coordinates
- 30.72699, 31.79739
- Also known as
- Faqus, Fāqūs, Faqus, Faqous, Fakus (ar), Phakousa (grc), Φάκουσα (grc), فاقوس (ar)
- Dating
- attested
Sources
- Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)