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Ptolemaic Kingdom
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Hellenistic kingdom in ancient Egypt (305–30 BCE)
The Ptolemaic Kingdom was an ancient Egyptian state ruled by Greek descendants of one of Alexander the Great's generals, lasting from 305 to 30 BCE. It matters because it represents an important period when Greek and Egyptian cultures blended together, and it was one of the major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world until Rome's rise.
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Wikidata facts
- Participant in
- Alexandrian War
- Continent
- Asia
- Capital
- Alexandria
- Head of state
- Ptolemy V Epiphanes
- Shares border with
- Hasmonean Judea
- Founded by
- Ptolemy I Soter
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- OpenStreetMap tag
- historic:period=ptolemaic_egypt
- Commons category
- Greco-Roman Egypt
- topic's main category
- Category:Ptolemaic Kingdom
- inception
- 0305-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 0030-00-00
- replaced by
- Roman Egypt
- located in/on physical feature
- Nile
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- P12749
- Georg Prochaska
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