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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.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Crocodilopolis
    by Roland Unger, GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Crocodilopolis

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    1994

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Egypt

    Faiyum Governorate

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    First Millennium BC

    Ancient Egyptians

    Ptolemaic + Roman

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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