Berenike
BERENIKE
BERENIKE (Gr. Βερενίκη, the name of several ancient cities founded (or restored) by the Ptolemaic kings and named in honor of Egyptian queens. One of these cities, in the territory of Israel, was Ailane on the Gulf of Eilat (Jos., Ant., 8:163). Another was in Cyrenaica (see *Benghazi).
bibliography:
Pauly-Wissowa, 5 (1897), 280–2; Avi-Yonah, Geog, 175.
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