Ptolemais Hermiou
Ptolemais Hermiou, or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, was a city and metropolitan archbishopric in Greco-Roman Egypt and remains a Catholic titular see. Today, the city of El Mansha -Bsoi in the Sohag Governorate is located where the ancient city used to be.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: ancient city
- Description: ancient city in Egypt
- Also known as: “El-Monshaeh”, “Markaz al Minshāh”, “Markaz al Munsha’ah”, “Markaz al Munshāh”, and “Markaz el Minshâh”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include El Esayrat.
El Esayrat
Village
El Usayrat is a small city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. It is situated near Sohag, on the east bank of the Nile. It used to be part of El Monshah, but became a separate city in 2008. El Esayrat is situated 6 km southeast of Ptolemais Hermiou.
Ptolemais Hermiou
- Location: Sohag Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Zulu—“Ptolemais Hermiou” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المنشأة”
- Arabic: “المنشاة (سوهاج)”
- Arabic: “المنشاة”
- Arabic: “مدينة المنشأة”
- Arabic: “مركز المنشأة”
- Arabic: “مركز المنشاة”
- Arabic: “مركز المنشاه”
- Arabic: “منشاة”
- Azerbaijani: “Ptolemey Hermi”
- Belarusian: “Пталемэс Герміу”
- Belarusian: “Эль Манша”
- Catalan: “Ptolemaida de la Tebaida”
- Catalan: “Ptolemaida Hermiu”
- Chinese: “托勒密荷米欧”
- Chinese: “托勒密荷米歐”
- Chinese: “托勒密赫米欧”
- Chinese: “托勒密赫米歐”
- Chinese: “托勒密赫墨”
- Danish: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Dutch: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة بطلميس”
- Finnish: “Ptolemais”
- French: “Ptolémaïs”
- German: “Ptolemais Hermeiou”
- Greek: “Πτολεμαΐδα Ερμία”
- Greek: “Πτολεμαΐδα Θηβαΐδας”
- Hebrew: “פטולמאיס”
- Irish: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Italian: “Tolemaide d’Egitto”
- Italian: “Tolemaide di Tebaide”
- Japanese: “イル・マンシャ”
- Japanese: “プトレマイサ・エルミア”
- Japanese: “プトレマイス・ヘルミオウ”
- Persian: “منشاه”
- Polish: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Portuguese: “Ptolemaida Hérmia”
- Portuguese: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Russian: “Птолемаида Великая”
- Russian: “Птолемаида Гермийская”
- Russian: “Птолемаида Фиваидская”
- Russian: “Птолемаида”
- Slovenian: “Ptolemaida, Egipt”
- South Azerbaijani: “منشاه”
- Spanish: “Ptolemaida Hermia”
- Swedish: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
- Zulu: “Ptolemais Hermiou”
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