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Crocodilopolis
Faiyum or Al-Fayoum, also known as Crocodilopolis, Arsinoe, is a city in Middle Egypt. In the Pharaonic era, the city now called Medinet el Fayum was called Shedet. In consequence, the Greeks named it Crocodilopolis, "Crocodile City", from the particular reverence paid by its inhabitants to crocodiles. Under the Ptolemies, the city was for a while called Ptolemais Euergetis and then Arsinoe. Under the Roman Empire it was called Arsinoe in Arcadia.
The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, El Fayoum.by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia CommonsElevation: 21 m
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UNESCO Tentative List
Date of Submission
1994
First Millennium BC
Ancient Egyptians
Ptolemaic + Roman
Mixed Monuments
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