Ptolemais

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ancient city historical place port city

Ptolemais is the historical name of the ancient Mediterranean port city now known as Acre in modern-day Israel.

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All labels observed (3)

Label	Occurrences
Ptolemais canonical	7
Ptolemais in Phoenicia	1
Ptolemais of Phoenicia	1

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	ancient city ⓘ historical place ⓘ port city ⓘ
ancientNameOf	Acre ⓘ Akko ⓘ
associatedWithCulture	Hellenistic Greek culture ⓘ Phoenician civilization ⓘ surface form: Phoenician culture Roman provincial culture ⓘ
country	Israel ⓘ
hasAlternativeName	Ptolemais ⓘ surface form: Ptolemais in Phoenicia Ptolemais ⓘ surface form: Ptolemais of Phoenicia
hasArchaeologicalSite	Old City of Akko ⓘ surface form: Old City of Acre
hasCoordinateRegion	Eastern Mediterranean ⓘ surface form: eastern Mediterranean
hasPredecessorName	Akko ⓘ
hasSuccessorName	Acre ⓘ
historicalContinuity	urban settlement from Bronze Age to modern era ⓘ
historicalRole	major coastal city in ancient Galilee ⓘ
languageOfName	Ancient Greek ⓘ
locatedIn	Acre ⓘ Galilee ⓘ Levant region ⓘ surface form: Levant
locatedInPresentDay	Israel ⓘ surface form: State of Israel
locatedOn	Mediterranean Sea ⓘ
mentionedIn	Acts of the Apostles ⓘ surface form: New Testament Acts of the Apostles
modernName	Acre ⓘ Akko ⓘ
namedAfter	House of Ptolemy ⓘ surface form: Ptolemaic dynasty Ptolemy II Philadelphus ⓘ
partOf	Byzantine Empire ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ surface form: Hellenistic world Ptolemaic Kingdom ⓘ Roman Empire ⓘ
portFunction	commercial port ⓘ military port ⓘ
predecessorCulture	Canaanite ⓘ Phoenician ⓘ
region	Northern District, Israel ⓘ surface form: Northern District of Israel
religiousSignificance	early Christian community site ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of coastal trade routes ⓘ gateway to Galilee ⓘ
successorCity	Saint-Jean-d’Acre ⓘ surface form: Crusader Acre Saint-Jean-d’Acre ⓘ surface form: Ottoman Acre
UNESCOWorldHeritageRelated	Old City of Akko ⓘ surface form: Old City of Acre World Heritage Site
usedBy	Greek speakers ⓘ Roman administration ⓘ
usedInPeriod	Byzantine period ⓘ Hellenistic period ⓘ Roman period ⓘ

Referenced by (9)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Acre → alternativeName → Ptolemais ⓘ

Coele-Syria → hasCity → Ptolemais ⓘ

Akka → alternativeName → Ptolemais ⓘ

Saint-Jean-d’Acre → hasAlternativeName → Ptolemais ⓘ

Ptolemais → hasAlternativeName → Ptolemais ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ptolemais in Phoenicia

Ptolemais → hasAlternativeName → Ptolemais ⓘ

this entity surface form: Ptolemais of Phoenicia

עַכּוֹ → historicalName → Ptolemais ⓘ

Jotapata → locatedNear → Ptolemais ⓘ

Akkō → alsoKnownAs → Ptolemais ⓘ