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'''Tolmeita''',<ref>[[Ronald Bruce St. John]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=yZG0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rnbwVMaiDqaU7QabwIG4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false ''Libya: Continuity and Change''] (Routledge 2013 {{ISBN|9781136824050}}), p.3</ref> '''Tolmeta'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pWOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TE_vVPGSNoWY7gbj64GwCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Anna Baldinetti, ''The Origins of the Libyan Nation''] (Routledge 2014 {{ISBN|9781135245023}}), p. viii</ref> or '''Tolmeitha'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-Je25qovO8C&pg=PA246&dq=Tolmeitha,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i0TvVLGjNIqw7AavjIFA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeitha%2C%20Libya&f=false ''Mammals in the Seas: Small cetaceans, seals, sirenians and otters''] (Food and Agriculture Organization 1978 {{ISBN|9789251005149}}), 246</ref> {{lang-ar|طلميتة}}<ref>[http://mot.gov.ly/component/search/?searchword=%D8%B7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A9&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20 Ministry of Transport, Libya]</ref> is a village in the northern [[Cyrenaica]] region of eastern [[Libya]], some {{convert|110|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of [[Benghazi]], near Ad Dirsiyah. Its name is derived from [[Greek language|Greek]] Πτολεμαΐς (''Ptolemais''), the name of the classical city of [[Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)|Ptolemais]], whose ruins are nearby.
'''Tolmeita''',<ref>[[Ronald Bruce St. John]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=yZG0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA3&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rnbwVMaiDqaU7QabwIG4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false ''Libya: Continuity and Change''] (Routledge 2013 {{ISBN|9781136824050}}), p.3</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VV8hBcCnYaIC&pg=PA292&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tmnwVOPPGMy17gbHuYHIDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Anthony R. Birley, ''Hadrian''] (Routledge 2013 {{ISBN|9781135952334}}), p. 292</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=7q1LDrb9btkC&pg=PT276&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Tyler Jo Smith, Dimitris Plantzos, ''A Companion to Greek Art''] (John Wiley & Sons 2012 {{ISBN|9781118273371}}), 15.7</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0YqIz1b15ZIC&pg=PA328&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gmPwVPn3L6av7AaRiIGQCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Thomas C. Oden, ''Early Libyan Christianity''] (InterVarsity Press 2011 {{ISBN|9780830869541}}), pp. 234, 328</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=VZowqTafiacC&pg=PT380&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x3rwVIP9JuSR7AbPiIGoDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Colin McEvedy, ''Cities of the Classical World''] (Penguin UK 2011 {{ISBN|9780141967639}})</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=t7KeBAAAQBAJ&pg=PT256&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=x3rwVIP9JuSR7AbPiIGoDA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false J.P. Alcock, ''Roman Britain''] (Hachette UK 2011 {{ISBN|9781849018135}})</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CQHsKG6g5zwC&pg=RA1-PR17&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=tmnwVOPPGMy17gbHuYHIDg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false G.R.H. Wright, ''Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction''] (BRILL 2009 {{ISBN|9789004177451}}), pp. xvi–xvii, xxvi–xxvii, cxc, 8</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=z3C9b4FvpEwC&pg=PA203&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fnnwVJnTNsXN7QbQ3oGYBQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Gocha R. Tsetskhladze, ''Greek Colonisation''] (BRILL 2008 {{ISBN|9789004155763}}), p. 203</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=lPaNiy3YisIC&pg=PA134&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Anthony Ham, ''Libya''] (Lonely Planet 2007 {{ISBN|9781740594936}}), p. 134</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=5vDbxEEX-I8C&pg=PA312&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Doronthy M. Thorn, ''The Four Seasons of Cyrene''] (L'Erma di Bretschneider 2007 {{ISBN|9788882654467}}), pp. 202, 312)</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=unEB9cNse84C&pg=PA114&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Werner Vycichl, Gâabor Takâacs (editors), ''Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In Memoriam W. Vycichl''] (BRILL 2004 {{ISBN|9789004132450}}), p. 114</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=rH26vL2CWbkC&pg=PA133&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gmPwVPn3L6av7AaRiIGQCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Paul Lachlan McKendrick, ''The North African Stones Speak''] (UNC Press 2000 {{ISBN|9780807849422}}), p. 133</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=PCn2EL3rT84C&pg=PA86&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=gmPwVPn3L6av7AaRiIGQCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Bernhard Bischoff, Michael Lapidge, ''Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian''] (Cambridge University Press 1994 {{ISBN|9780521330893}}), p. 86</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ozrcrT2_CXwC&pg=PA155&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false George R.H. Wright, ''Ancient Building in Cyprus''] (BRILL 1992 {{ISBN|9789004095472}}), p. 155</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=ctnMSWc4JdMC&pg=PA11&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CEzwVJztEYGN7QaNx4CIAQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Paul Hulton, F. Nigel Hpper, Ib Friis, ''Luigi Balugani's Drawings of African Plants''] (CRC Press 1991 {{ISBN|9789061917793}}), p. 11</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=efLuB7QPDm8C&pg=PA130&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&hl=en&sa=X&ei=rnbwVMaiDqaU7QabwIG4Bg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeita%20Ptolemais&f=false Kurt Weitzmann, ''Age of Spirituality''] (Metropolitan Museum of Art 1979 {{ISBN|9780870991790}}), pp. 130–131</ref> '''Tolmeta'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pWOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PR8&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TE_vVPGSNoWY7gbj64GwCQ&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Anna Baldinetti, ''The Origins of the Libyan Nation''] (Routledge 2014 {{ISBN|9781135245023}}), p. viii</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=0YqIz1b15ZIC&pg=PA305&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W0TvVNbNGOrp7Aas3IDgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Thomas C. Oden, ''Early Libyan Christianity''] (InterVarsity Press 2011 {{ISBN|9780830869541}}), p. 305</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=T1kr4YGTA2AC&pg=PA56&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=r1DvVKvWH4av7AaymoCIBA&ved=0CB4Q6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false [[François Chamoux]], ''Hellenistic Civilization'' (John Wiley & Sons 2008 {{ISBN|9780470752050}}), p. 56]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=zBurLat60hIC&pg=PA253&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W0TvVNbNGOrp7Aas3IDgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Paul Robinson Coleman-Norton, Frank Card Bourne, ''Ancient Roman Statutes''] (The Lawbook Exchange 2003 {{ISBN|9781584772910}}), p. 253</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=xJOEAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR6&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W0TvVNbNGOrp7Aas3IDgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Robert M. Grant, ''Early Christians and Animals''] (Routledge 2002 {{ISBN|9781134633753}}), p. vi</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=EOpXpPyRneEC&pg=PA123&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W0TvVNbNGOrp7Aas3IDgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false ''Study of Unrepeatered Submarine Fiber Optic System''] (Information Gatekeepers Inc., 2001)</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=gZWuVAL2GooC&pg=PA127&dq=%22present-day+Tolmeta%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Gk7vVI2BIuLm7gaBsYC4Dg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22present-day%20Tolmeta%22&f=false Muḥammad Jamāl al-Dīn Mukhtār, G. Mokhtar, ''Ancient Civilizations of Africa''] (James Currey Publishers 1990 {{ISBN|9780852550922}}, p. 127</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=67WREgQn5cAC&pg=PA20&dq=Tolmeta,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=W0TvVNbNGOrp7Aas3IDgCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeta%2C%20Libya&f=false Jane Soames Nickerson] (Biblo & Tannen Publishers 1968 {{ISBN|9780819602190}}), p. 20</ref> or '''Tolmeitha'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=j-Je25qovO8C&pg=PA246&dq=Tolmeitha,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i0TvVLGjNIqw7AavjIFA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeitha%2C%20Libya&f=false ''Mammals in the Seas: Small cetaceans, seals, sirenians and otters''] (Food and Agriculture Organization 1978 {{ISBN|9789251005149}}), 246</ref> {{lang-ar|طلميتة}}<ref>[http://mot.gov.ly/component/search/?searchword=%D8%B7%D9%84%D9%85%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%A9&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20 Ministry of Transport, Libya]</ref> is a village in the northern [[Cyrenaica]] region of eastern [[Libya]], some {{convert|110|km|mi|abbr=on}} east of [[Benghazi]], near Ad Dirsiyah. Its name is derived from [[Greek language|Greek]] Πτολεμαΐς (''Ptolemais''), the name of the classical city of [[Ptolemais (Cyrenaica)|Ptolemais]], whose ruins are nearby.
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