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ID: 7001241
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7001241
Record Type:
administrative
Naucratis (inhabited place)
Coordinates:
Lat: 30 54 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 30.9000
decimal degrees
Long: 030 35 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 30.5833
decimal degrees
Note:
Was important ancient commercial & trading center; was the first Greek settlement in Egypt; Amasis II further encouraged Greek artisans and merchants to settle here; declined after founding of Alexandria in 332 BCE.
Names:
Naucratis
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Kom Giéif
(
C
,
V
)
Kawm Juʻayf
(
C
,
V
)
Naukratis
(
H
,
V
)
............
ancient
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Buḩayrah
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Naucratis
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Place Types:
inhabited place (
preferred
,
C
)
............
settled by Greek traders from Miletus in the time of Psammetichos I (664-610 BC)
archaeological site (
C
)
............
site was discovered by Sir WM Petrie in 1884
Sources and Contributors:
Kawm Juʻayf..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.......................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-87
Kom Giéif..........
[
GRLPSC
]
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Naucratis..........
[
VP
]
....................
NGA/NIMA database (2003-)
accessed 6 March 2012
....................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
....................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
351
Naukratis..........
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
....................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 641-642
....................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8510
....................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
Subject:
.....
[
GRLPSC
,
VP
]
..................
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
II, 641-642
..................
GRI Photo Archive, Authority File (1998)
8510
..................
NIMA, GEOnet Names Server (1996-1998)
..................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites (1979)
..................
Rand McNally Atlas (1989)
I-87
..................
Times Atlas of World History (1993)
351
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
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