Leontopolis (disambiguation)
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Leontopolis may refer to:
Leontopolis may also refer to:
- LeontopolisLeontopolisLeontopolis or Leonto or Latin: Leontos Oppidum or Egyptian: Taremu, was an Ancient Egyptian city that is known as Tell al Muqdam today.-History:The city is located in the central part of the Nile Delta region...
, capital of the 11th nome of Lower Egypt - Leontopolis (Heliopolis)Leontopolis (Heliopolis)Leontopolis is the Greek name for the modern area of Tell el Yehudiye or Tell el-Yahudiya.It was an ancient city of Egypt in the 13th nome of Lower Egypt , on the Pelusiac branch of the Nile....
, a city of the 13th nome of Lower Egypt
Leontopolis may also refer to:
- Bizana, Turkey, in eastern AnatoliaAnatoliaAnatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...
- Isaura Nova, in IsauriaIsauriaIsauria , in ancient geography, is a rugged isolated district in the interior of South Asia Minor, of very different extent at different periods, but generally covering what is now the district of Bozkır and its surroundings in the Konya province of Turkey, or the core of the Taurus Mountains. In...
, Turkey - Nicephorium, in SyriaSyriaSyria , officially the Syrian Arab Republic , is a country in Western Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the West, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south, and Israel to the southwest....
- ZalichesZalichesZaliches or Zaliscus or Zalecus or Leontopolis, was an ancient town in the interior of Paphlagonia, or what, at a late period, was called Hellenopontus, probably near some mountain forest, as Hierocles calls it Zaliches (Greek: ') or Zaliscus or Zalecus or Leontopolis, was an ancient town in the...
, near Sinop