Abydos (Egypt) 15 al-Balyana - Άβυδος

Ἄβυδος - Abydos, city of the Nile delta, moern Al-Balyana
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Latitude: 26.185500
Longitude: 31.919600
Confidence: High (20170127)

Greek name: Ἄβυδος
Place ID: 262319UAby
Time period: BACHR
Region: Egypt
Country: Egypt
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Mod: al-Balyana

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Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abydos,_Egypt
Wikidata ID: Q192268
Trismegistos Geo: 34
DARE: 22160

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Strabo, Geography§17.1.42  a form of government after the Grecian mode. Above this city is Abydos, where is the palace of Memnon, constructed in a singular manner, -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.42  About the canal is a grove of Egyptian acanthus, dedicated to Apollo. Abydos seems once to have been a large city, second to Thebes. At -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.42  Memnonium, and the work of the same person who constructed those at Abydos and at Thebes; for in those places, it is said, are some -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.42  those places, it is said, are some Memnonia. In the latitude of Abydos is the first Auasis (Oasis) of the three which are said to -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.42  three which are said to be in Africa. It is distant from Abydos a journey of seven days through a desert. It is an inhabited -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.44  At Abydos Osiris is worshipped; but in the temple of Osiris no singer, nor -1
Strabo, Geography§17.1.44  usual in rites celebrated in honour of the other gods. Next to Abydos is the lesser Diospolis, then the city Tentyra, where the crocodile is -1
Pliny the Elder, Natural History (37 books)§5.60  another of city of Jupiter. After this comes Tentyris, below which is Abydus, the royal abode of Memnon, and famous for a temple of -1
Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris, Moralia§20  may be they will tell you that some one town, such as Abydos or Memphis, is named for the place where his true body lies; -1
Plutarch, Of Isis and Osiris, Moralia§20  and wealthy among the Egyptians are most ambitious to be buried at Abydos, that so they may be near the body of their God -1
Aelian, Characteristics of Animals§10.28  The people of Busiris and of Abydos in Egypt and of Lycopolis dislike the blare of a trumpet on -1
Solinus, Polyhistor§32.40  Indians convey cargoes. The region Thebaica is named after this city. 41 Abydos is also famous, formerly for the palace of Memnon, now for the -1
Stephanus of Byzantium, Ethnica§A9.19  ὅπῃ καὶ Ἄβυδος ἐναντίον ὅρμον ἔθεντο. καὶ ἡ κατ´ Αἴγυπτον τῶν αὐτῶν ἄποικος, ἀπὸ Ἀβύδου τινὸς κληθεῖσα, καὶ ἡ κατὰ τὴν Ἰαπυγίαν ἢ Ἰταλίαν, -1
Ptolemaeus, Geography (II-VI)§4.5.66  Hermeiou . 61°50' . 27°10' then inland, likewise west from the river, Abydos . 61°40' . 26°50' 150
Anonymous, Antonine Itinerary§155  minoris - 18 miles Hisopis - 28 miles Ptolomais - 22 miles Abydus - 22 miles Diospolis - 28 miles Tentira - 27 miles Opposite 200
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