Pentapolis

The Pentapolis (Greek Πεντάπολις , penta "five" and polis "city") is a union of five cities. Such city associations are:

• Pentapolis (Bible) , in the Bible mentioned group of five cities in the Siddim valley near the Dead Sea, namely Sodom and Gomorrah, Adma, Zebojim and Bela
• Pentapolis (Palestine) , the philist city-states Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod, Gat and Ekron
• Pentapolis (Cyrenaica) , the cities of Cyrene, Ptolemais, Apollonia, Taucheira and Euhesperides in Cyrenaica in today's Libya
• Doric Pentapolis , after the exclusion of Halicarnassus, a five-city league consisting of Kos on the island of the same name, Knidos in Caria, Lindos, Ialysos and Kameiros on Rhodes
• Pontic Pentapolis , union of the Greek cities Apollonia, Kallatis, Mesembria, Odessos and Tomis on the west coast of the Black Sea
• Phrygian Pentapolis , union of the Phrygian cities Eukarpia, Hieropolis, Otrus, Stektorion and Bruzos
• Pentapolis (Italy) , the Italian cities of Rimini, Pesaro, Fano, Senigallia and Ancona on the Adriatic coast
• Pentapolitana , a union of Upper Hungarian free cities consisting of Košice, Levoča, Bardejov, Prešov and Sabinov
• Pentapolis (M'zab) , the five Mozabite cities Ghardaia, Melika, Bou Noura, Beni Isguen and Atteuf

Also:

• Pentapolis (India) , in ancient geography a city in India across the Ganges estuary, perhaps today's Chittagong

See also:

• Cinque Ports , the five port cities of Dover, Hastings, Hythe, Roniney (today's name New Romney) and Sandwich in the south of England
• Pentapolitana
• Association of Cities , Hexapolis

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.