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Ptolemaïs , ancient name given to several cities to honor members of the dynasty of the Ptolemies. One of these later became known as Akko , in modern Israel. Another was one of the great Hellenistic cities of Upper Egypt, on the Nile and N of Abydos. A third, in Cyrenaica, was one of the cities of the Libyan Pentapolis.

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Ptolemais The name given to the seaport Acco (Judg. 1: 31) by the Egyptians in the 3rd and 2nd cents. BCE and one of the towns which mobilized an army against Judas Maccabaeus (1 Macc. 5: 15). Paul broke his journey to Jerusalem at Ptolemais and spent a day with the Christian community there (Acts 21: 7).

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