Naucratis - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Naucratis - Credit: Wikimedia Commons
Naucratis or Naukratis (Ancient Greek: , "Naval Command";"Naukratis", Perseus Digital Library Dictionary. Egyptian: , , , Coptic: ) was a city and trading-post in ancient Egypt, located on the Canopic (western-most) branch of the Nile river, south-east of the Mediterranean sea and the city of Alexandria. Naucratis was the first and, for much of its early history, the only permanent Greek settlement in Egypt, serving as a symbiotic nexus for the interchange of Greek and Egyptian art and culture. Read more on Wikipedia
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