Roman province of Egypt

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Roman province former country

The Roman province of Egypt was a strategically vital and economically rich territory of the Roman Empire, centered on the Nile Valley and administered directly by the emperor as his personal domain.

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All labels observed (2)

Label	Occurrences
Roman Egypt	23
Roman province of Egypt canonical	2

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Roman province ⓘ former country ⓘ
administeredAs	personal domain of the emperor ⓘ
administeredBy	Roman emperor ⓘ
borderedBy	Nubia NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman province of Arabia Petraea NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman province of Cyrenaica NERFINISHED ⓘ
capital	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ
conqueredAfter	Battle of Actium NERFINISHED ⓘ
conqueredFrom	Cleopatra VII NERFINISHED ⓘ
conquestBy	Rashidun Caliphate NERFINISHED ⓘ
continent	Africa ⓘ
country	Roman Empire ⓘ
currency	Roman currency ⓘ
economicImportance	center of trade ⓘ major grain producer ⓘ source of papyrus ⓘ
endTime	AD 641 ⓘ
establishedAfter	Roman annexation of Egypt ⓘ
establishedBy	Augustus NERFINISHED ⓘ Octavian NERFINISHED ⓘ
followed	Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
governmentType	Roman province under imperial administration ⓘ
governorAppointedBy	Roman emperor ⓘ
governorRank	equestrian ⓘ
governorTitle	praefectus Aegypti NERFINISHED ⓘ
incorporatedRegion	Cyrenaica (for some periods) ⓘ
knownFor	Alexandrian scholarship ⓘ production of grain for the annona ⓘ
language	Egyptian (Demotic and Coptic) ⓘ Greek ⓘ Latin ⓘ
laterControlledBy	Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED ⓘ
locatedIn	Africa ⓘ Eastern Mediterranean NERFINISHED ⓘ Nile Valley NERFINISHED ⓘ North Africa ⓘ
majorCity	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ Memphis NERFINISHED ⓘ Oxyrhynchus NERFINISHED ⓘ Thebes NERFINISHED ⓘ
notablePort	Alexandria NERFINISHED ⓘ
partOf	Roman Empire ⓘ
religion	Greco-Roman polytheism NERFINISHED ⓘ early Christianity ⓘ traditional Egyptian religion ⓘ
replacedBy	Diocese of Egypt NERFINISHED ⓘ
startTime	30 BC ⓘ
strategicImportance	control of Eastern Mediterranean sea routes ⓘ control of grain supply to Rome ⓘ

Referenced by (25)

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

Oxyrhynchus → partOf → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

Kiosk of Trajan → culturalContext → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Double Crown of Egypt → timePeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Eye of Horus symbolism → timePeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Maharraqa → historicalEra → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Memphite necropolis → periodOfUse → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Two Lands of Egypt → timePeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

On the Creation (De opificio mundi) → countryOfOrigin → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Ptah-Sokar-Osiris → worshipPeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

ruins of the Serapeum of Alexandria → associatedWith → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Pelusiac branch of the Nile → historicalPeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Classis Alexandrina → locatedInTheAdministrativeTerritorialEntity → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Lycopolis → timePeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Egyptian antiquities → timeSpan → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Faiyum Oasis → significantInPeriod → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Atripé → historicalRegion → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Panopolis region → partOf → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Geographia → countryOfOrigin → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Harmonics → countryOfOrigin → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

subject surface form: Harmonics (Ptolemy)

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Optics → countryOfOrigin → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

subject surface form: Optics (Ptolemy)

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Diaspora Revolt → historicalRegion → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Nitrian Desert monastic center → locatedIn → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Pachomius the Great → countryOfCitizenship → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Amma Theodora → countryOfCitizenship → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman Egypt

Gaius Avidius Heliodorus → governedTerritory → Roman province of Egypt ⓘ