Herakleopolis

settlement · 330 BC – 2100 AD

Herakleopolis (also called Herakleopolis Magna) was the capital of the Twentieth nome of Egypt.

Coordinates

29.08550, 30.93458

Also known as

Heracleopolis Magna, Herakleopolis, Heracleopolis (grc), Ihnasya, Ehnyasa, Ihnyasa, Ehnasya, Ihnāsiyat, Ihnāsiya, Ihnasiyyah (arz), إهناسيا (arz), Ἡρακλεούπολις (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)
• GeoNames · CC BY 4.0
  © GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)

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