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'''Tolmeita''',<ref>[[Ronald Bruce St. John]], [https://books.google.com/books?id=yZG0AAAAQBAJ&dq=Tolmeita+Ptolemais&pg=PA3 ''Libya: Continuity and Change''] (Routledge 2013 {{ISBN|9781136824050}}), p.3</ref> '''Tolmeta'''<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=-pWOAwAAQBAJ&dq=Tolmeta%2C+Libya&pg=PR8 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&dq=Tolmeitha%2C+Libya&pg=PA246 ''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>[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 Ronald Bruce St John, ''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> or '''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>
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<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> (''Arabic'' 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 tiny 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.


In some, often less scholarly, books the village and the ruins are called '''Tolmeitha''' in English.<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=tdbEAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA423&dq=Tolmeitha,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i0TvVLGjNIqw7AavjIFA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeitha%2C%20Libya&f=false Donald A Bertke, Gordon Smith, Don Kindell, ''World War II Sea War, Volume 3: The Royal Navy is Bloodied in the Mediterranean'' (Lulu 2012 ISBN 9781937470012), p. 423]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=IF4B2rr4CNIC&pg=PA204&dq=Tolmeitha,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i0TvVLGjNIqw7AavjIFA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeitha%2C%20Libya&f=false John A. Little, ''The Cryptanalyst'' (Lulu 2007 ISBN 9780953026845), p. 204]</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=TH5YgFn0W6YC&pg=PA11&dq=Tolmeitha,+Libya&hl=en&sa=X&ei=i0TvVLGjNIqw7AavjIFA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=Tolmeitha%2C%20Libya&f=false John A. Little, ''Revolution'' (Lulu 2007 ISBN 9780953026852), p. 11]</ref><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>


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Latest revision as of 10:53, 16 March 2023

Tolmeita
طلميتة
Village
Tolmeita is located in Libya
Tolmeita
Tolmeita
Location in Libya
Coordinates: 32°42′19.48″N 20°56′41.09″E / 32.7054111°N 20.9447472°E / 32.7054111; 20.9447472
Country Libya
RegionCyrenaica
DistrictMarj
Time zoneUTC+2 (CAT)

Tolmeita,[1] Tolmeta[2] or Tolmeitha[3] Arabic: طلميتة[4] is a village in the northern Cyrenaica region of eastern Libya, some 110 km (68 mi) east of Benghazi, near Ad Dirsiyah. Its name is derived from Greek Πτολεμαΐς (Ptolemais), the name of the classical city of Ptolemais, whose ruins are nearby.


32°42′19″N 20°56′41″E / 32.705411°N 20.944748°E / 32.705411; 20.944748

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Ronald Bruce St. John, Libya: Continuity and Change (Routledge 2013 ISBN 9781136824050), p.3
  2. ^ Anna Baldinetti, The Origins of the Libyan Nation (Routledge 2014 ISBN 9781135245023), p. viii
  3. ^ Mammals in the Seas: Small cetaceans, seals, sirenians and otters (Food and Agriculture Organization 1978 ISBN 9789251005149), 246
  4. ^ Ministry of Transport, Libya
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