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  1. Naucratis
    Naucratis or Naukratis, (Ναύκρατις), loosely translated as "(the city that wields) power over ships" (Piemro in Egyptian, now Kom Gieif), was a city of Ancient Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile river, 45 mi (72 km) SE of the open sea and the later capital of Ptolemaic Egypt, Alexand...
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  2. Naucratis
    City of Greek traders in ancient Egypt, in the Nile delta, rediscovered by the British archaeologist Flinders Petrie 1884. ...
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  3. Naucratis
    Naucratis (nok'rutis) , ancient city of Egypt, on the Canopic branch of the Nile, 45 mi (72 km) SE of Alexandria. It was probably given (7th cent. B.C.) by Psamtik to Greek colonists from Miletus and was the first Greek settlement in Egypt. The rise of Alexandria and the shifting of the Nile cau...
    Found op http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/history/A0835006.html

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