• archbishopric of Metropolitan rank; it was renamed in 1925 Leontopolis, in 1933 Leontopolis in Augustamnica. It has had the following incumbents, of fitting...
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  • accepted as being Leontopolis, and therefore, the site of Oniad Temple. One problem is that Roman sources tell us that Leontopolis was 180 stadia (about...
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  • number of Jews settled. The Land of Onias, which included the city of Leontopolis (Λεόντων πόλις), was located in the Heliopolite Nome (Hebrew: אֹן ʾOn...
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    argue that they used Leontopolis as their capital. This is confirmed by Piankhy's stela, which locates Iuput II in Leontopolis. However, some historians...
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  • Leontopolis may refer to: Leontopolis, also known as Tell el-Muqdam, capital of the 11th nome of Lower Egypt Leontopolis (Heliopolis), also known as Tell...
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    may indicate that she was also identifying with Tefnut. Heliopolis and Leontopolis (now ell el-Muqdam) were the primary cult centres. At Heliopolis, Tefnut...
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  • "Leontopolis" as another name for the same town. Both Wesseling and the contributor to Smith's Geography also believe that this is the Leontopolis spoken...
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    accompaniment of song in the Egyptian language", thus the Greek name of the city Leontopolis was derived.[citation needed] List of Egyptian deities Kangla Sha Nongshaba...
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    Sekhmet at Taremu in the Delta region, a city which the Greeks called Leontopolis.[citation needed] The first known unambiguous reference to Sekhmet is...
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    Libyan control began to erode as a rival dynasty in the delta arose in Leontopolis, and Kushites threatened from the south. Around 727 BC the Kushite king...
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