Cynopolis, the Glossary
Cynopolis (Κυνόπολις and Κυνῶν πόλις for "city of the dog") was the Hellenistic toponym for two cities in ancient Egypt.[1]
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Abusir Bana
Abusir Bana (أبو صير بنا), anciently known as Busiris (Greek: Βούσιρις; translit), is a village in Gharbia governorate, Egypt. Cynopolis and Abusir Bana are former populated places in Egypt.
Ancient Egypt
Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa.
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Ancient Egyptian deities
Ancient Egyptian deities are the gods and goddesses worshipped in ancient Egypt.
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Anubis
Anubis (Ἄνουβις), also known as Inpu, Inpw, Jnpw, or Anpu in Ancient Egyptian, is the god of funerary rites, protector of graves, and guide to the underworld, in ancient Egyptian religion, usually depicted as a canine or a man with a canine head.
Arcadia Aegypti
Arcadia or Arcadia Aegypti was a Late Roman province in northern Egypt.
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Carolina Academic Press
Carolina Academic Press (also known as CAP) is an academic publisher of books and software.
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Castulo
Castulo (Latin: Castulo; Iberian: Kastilo) was an Iberian town and bishopric (now Latin titular see located in the Andalusian province of Jaén, in south-central Spain, near modern Linares.
Coadjutor bishop
A coadjutor bishop (or bishop coadjutor) is a bishop in the Catholic, Anglican, and (historically) Eastern Orthodox churches whose main role is to assist the diocesan bishop in the administration of the diocese.
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Cynopolis
Cynopolis (Κυνόπολις and Κυνῶν πόλις for "city of the dog") was the Hellenistic toponym for two cities in ancient Egypt. Cynopolis and Cynopolis are Archaeological sites in Egypt and former populated places in Egypt.
Diocese
In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop.
Jesuits
The Society of Jesus (Societas Iesu; abbreviation: SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits (Iesuitae), is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
John Murray (publishing house)
John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.
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Lower Egypt
Lower Egypt (مصر السفلى) is the northernmost region of Egypt, which consists of the fertile Nile Delta between Upper Egypt and the Mediterranean Sea, from El Aiyat, south of modern-day Cairo, and Dahshur.
Nile
The Nile (also known as the Nile River) is a major north-flowing river in northeastern Africa.
Nome (Egypt)
A nome (from νομός, nomós, "district") was a territorial division in ancient Egypt.
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Oblates of St. Francis de Sales
The Oblates of St.
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Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus (sharp-nosed,;; ⲡⲉⲙϫⲉ or |Pemdje), also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa (el-Bahnasa), is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. Cynopolis and Oxyrhynchus are Archaeological sites in Egypt and former populated places in Egypt.
Pinehesy
Pinehesy, Panehesy or Panehasy, depending on the transliteration, was Viceroy of Kush during the reign of Ramesses XI, the last king of the Egyptian 20th Dynasty.
Plutarch
Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.
Ptolemaic dynasty
The Ptolemaic dynasty (Πτολεμαῖοι, Ptolemaioi), also known as the Lagid dynasty (Λαγίδαι, Lagidai; after Ptolemy I's father, Lagus), was a Macedonian Greek royal house which ruled the Ptolemaic Kingdom in Ancient Egypt during the Hellenistic period.
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Ptolemy
Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.
Ramesses XI
Menmaatre Ramesses XI (also written Ramses and Rameses) reigned from 1107 BC to 1078 BC or 1077 BC and was the tenth and final pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt and as such, was the last king of the New Kingdom period.
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunja
The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tunja (Tunquensis) is an archdiocese located in the city of Tunja in Colombia.
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil
The Roman Catholic Diocese of Socorro y San Gil (Succursensis et Sancti Aegidii) is a diocese located in the cities of Socorro and San Gil in the ecclesiastical province of Bucaramanga in Colombia.
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Roman province
The Roman provinces (pl.) were the administrative regions of Ancient Rome outside Roman Italy that were controlled by the Romans under the Roman Republic and later the Roman Empire.
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Society of African Missions
The Society of African Missions (Societas Missionum ad Afros), also known as the SMA Fathers, is a Catholic religious society of apostolic life of pontifical right for men founded by Melchior de Marion Brésillac in 1856.
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Suffragan bishop
A suffragan bishop is a type of bishop in some Christian denominations.
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Titular bishop
A titular bishop in various churches is a bishop who is not in charge of a diocese.
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Titular see
A titular see in various churches is an episcopal see of a former diocese that no longer functions, sometimes called a "dead diocese".
Toponymy
Toponymy, toponymics, or toponomastics is the study of toponyms (proper names of places, also known as place names and geographic names), including their origins, meanings, usage and types.
Upper Egypt
Upper Egypt (صعيد مصر, shortened to الصعيد,, locally) is the southern portion of Egypt and is composed of the Nile River valley south of the delta and the 30th parallel N. It thus consists of the entire Nile River valley from Cairo south to Lake Nasser (formed by the Aswan High Dam).
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynopolis
Also known as Cynopolis Inferior, Cynopolis in Aegypto, Cynopolis in Arcadia, Cynopolis superior, Cynum, El Kays, Meniet ebn Kasib.