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    Antinopolis or Antinoöpolis, modern Sheikh Ibada, was a city founded at an older Egyptian village by the Roman emperor Hadrian to commemorate his deified young beloved, Antinous, on the east bank of the Nile, not far from the site in Upper Egypt where Antinous drowned in 130 AD.
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    Antinopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Antinopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
    Antinopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    2nd Century AD

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