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The Egyptian Greeks, also known as Egyptiotes (Greek: Αιγυπτιώτες, romanized: Eyiptiótes) or simply Greeks in Egypt (Greek: Έλληνες της Αιγύπτου, romanized: Éllines tis Eyíptou), are the ethnic Greek community from Egypt that has existed from the Hellenistic period until the aftermath of the Egyptian coup d'état of 1952, when most were forced to leave.
Egyptian settlement and colonisation is attested from about 3200 BC onward, all over the area of southern Canaan, by almost every type of artifact: architecture (fortifications, embankments and buildings), pottery, vessels, tools, weapons, seals, etc. [7] [8] Narmer had Egyptian pottery produced in Canaan and exported back to Egypt, [9] from regions such as Arad, En Besor, Rafiah, and Tel ...
Naucratis was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek settlement in Egypt, serving as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture. The modern villages of Kom Gi'eif, el-Nibeira and el-Niqrash cover the archaeological site, [3] which is of great importance. It is the source of ...
The Greek Colonisation of the Black Sea Area. Franz Steiner Verlag. ISBN 978-3515073028. Isaac, Benjamin H. (1997). The Greek Settlements in Thrace Until the Macedonian Conquest. Studies of the Dutch Archaeological and Historical Society, Vol 10. Brill Academic Pub. ISBN 978-9004069213. Treister, M Yu (1997). The Role of Metals in Ancient Greek ...
Serapis was the patron god of Ptolemaic Egypt, combining the Egyptian gods Apis and Osiris with the Greek deities Zeus, Hades, Asklepios, Dionysos, and Helios; he had powers over fertility, the sun, funerary rites, and medicine. His growth and popularity reflected a deliberate policy by the Ptolemaic state, and was characteristic of the dynasty ...
While previously believed to represent Greek settlers in Egypt, [21] [22] modern studies conclude that the Faiyum portraits instead represent mainly native Egyptians (source needed), reflecting the complex synthesis of the predominant Egyptian culture and that of the elite Greek minority in the city. [23] [24] [25]
Known most popularly in the modern era and to scholarship by its traditional Greek name Leontopolis Λεόντων πόλις [1] (literally, "city of lions"), or Leonto Λεοντώ, ("lion"), [2] the demographic makeup of the city varied culturally and linguistically over its long history, and the Greek name was progressively used more and more over the native Egyptian Taremu ("Land of Fish ...
Greek settlers to the city were brought over from the Peloponnese and northern Greece. [6] The city housed temples to Greek and Egyptian gods (Zeus, Dionysus, Isis) as well as a cult for the worship of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. There was also a theater and actor's guild present in the city. [7]