Bereni'ce

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 2: Beaugency to Cataract, p. 88–89

Bereni'ce (modern name, Sakáyt-el-Kubli), a town of Egypt, on a bay in the Red Sea, 20 miles

SW. of Ras Benass. It was founded by Ptolemy Philadelphus, and was in ancient times the emporium of the trade with India, but it is now ruined, and interesting only for its antiquities.

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