Ptolemais
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Ptolemais may refer to:
People
- Ptolemais of Cyrene, a c. 3rd-century BC mathematician and musical theorist
 - Ptolemais, daughter of Ptolemy I Soter and mother of Demetrius the Fair
 - Ptolemais (tribe), a phyle of Ancient Athens
 
Places
Africa
- Ptolemais, Cyrenaica, a city in modern-day Libya
 - Ptolemais Euergetis, in what is now the Faiyum in Egypt
 - Ptolemais Hermiou or Ptolemais in the Thebaid, modern-day El Mansha in the Sohag Governorate of Egypt
 - Ptolemais Theron, a city on the African coast of the Red Sea
 
Elsewhere
- Ptolemais or Lebedus, on and around the Kısık Peninsula
 - Ptolemaida in West Macedonia, Greece
 - Ptolemais (Pamphylia), a coastal town of ancient Pamphylia or of Cilicia
 - Ptolemais, a name that may have been given to Larisa (Troad), Anatolia
 - Ptolemais in Phoenicia, later Acre, in modern-day Israel
 
See also
- All pages with titles beginning with Ptolemais
 - Ptolemy (disambiguation)
 - Ptolemaic Kingdom
 - Ptolemaiida, a taxon of extinct wolf-like mammals