A pentapolis, from the Greek words πέντε (pente), `five` and πόλις (polis), `city(-state)` is a geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities. Cities in the ancient world probably formed such groups for political, commercial and military reasons, as happened later with the Cinque Ports in England. == Significant historical ...
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alliance of five cities
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(from the article `North Africa`) ...Apollonia, the port of Cyrene, became a city in its own right; Euhesperides was refounded as Berenice, and a new city, Ptolemais (ulmaythah), was ... ...inhabiting the coast between Cyrenaica and Egypt, caused trouble. When Diocletian reorganized the empire, Cyrenaica was separated from Crete and ......
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pentapolis 1. A confederacy or group of five towns; applied in ancient times to several such groups. 2. A Pentapolis is geographic and/or institutional grouping of five cities.
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