Ptolemaios/Traianos Potamos

other · 550 BC – 640 AD

The Hellenistic and Roman continuation of work on the so-called "Canal of the Pharaohs". Trajan reworked the canal, shifting its mouth on the Nile River further to the south to what is now Old Cairo (a.k.a. Coptic Cairo).

Coordinates

30.25000, 31.25000

Also known as

Ptolemaios, Traianos Potamos

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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