Karanis
Query URLs
https://term.museum-digital.de/md-de/place/19025
- Note
- "Karanis (Koinē Greek: Καρανίς), located in what is now Kom Oshim, was an agricultural town in the Ptolemaic Kingdom,located in the northeast corner of the Faiyum.
"It was one of a number of towns established in the Arsinoite nome under Ptolemy II Philadelphus as part of a scheme to settle Greek mercenaries among the Egyptians and to exploit the potential fertile Fayum basin"." - (en.wikipedia.org 22.09.2020) - Latitude
- 29.518089294434
- Longitude
- 30.902931213379
- Time zone
- Africa/Cairo
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