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Region: Libye (Cyrénaïque, district de Marj)

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Ptolemaïs (Tolmeta) is a Hellenistic port city in Cyrenaica, founded by the Ptolemies. Inscriptions and historical sources attest to an ancient Jewish community in this region where the Jewish diaspora was particularly dense in the Hellenistic and Roman periods.

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The days of this book

This book bears no memory day yet. The sources that document Ptolémaïs (Tolmeta) give years and centuries, never a day; we do not invent one.

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Sources & resources

  • Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic WorldBrill
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica2e éd., Keter/Macmillan

Notable figures of this place

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