Bérénice (port)

See also: Bérénice

Bérénice is a Egyptian port on the Red Sea, founded towards -260 by Ptolémée {{II}} Philadelphe, which thus named it in homage to his/her mother Bérénice {{Ire}}.

It was in the beginning a port of strategic interest, where were unloaded the elephants captured in Érythrée and intended for the royal army.

This port declined with I er, the large Egyptian port on the Red Sea being Myos Hormos (Quseir Al-Qadim), more in north.

Bérénice knew a renewal of activity towards the end of the 1st century, with the development of the trade of India and the increase in the size of the trading vessels.

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