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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Arsinoe |
 | | It is the most famous of several homonymous cities in Egypt, greatly favoured and renamed by Ptolemy II (284-247 V.C.) in honour of his sister and wife Arsinoe. |
 | | Another Arsinoe was located on the Heeroopolite gulf of the Red Sea, and as one of the principal harbours of ancient Egypt carried on an extensive trade with India in silks, spices, ivory, etc. It is mentioned in Exodus, xiv, 2,9, and Numbers, xxxiii, 7 and is said to be identical with Argueroud near Suez. |
 | | Arsinoe on the west coast of Cyprus was an episcopal see from the fifth to the twelfth century (Gams,(p. |
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