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	Berenice, Egypt - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		'BERENICE, an ancient seaport of Egypt, on the west coast of the Red Sea, in 23° 56 N., 35° 34' E. Built at the head of a gulf, the Sinus Immundus, or Foul Bay, of Strabo, it was sheltered on the north by Ras Benas (Lepte Extrema).
		The port is now nearly filled up, has a sand-bar at its entrance and can be reached only by small craft.
		In the neighbourhood of Berenice are the emerald mines of Zabara and Saket.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Berenice,_Egypt (206 words)

	History of the River Wharves :: ABC Tropical Queensland
		Local historian Berenice Wright explains that the river port was the lifeblood of the town from the 1880s onwards.
		According to Berenice, the port on the Pioneer River was born of necessity when the early settlers realised that the St. Lawrence port was inadequate for their needs.
		From its humble beginnings, these river port operations continued until 1939 when the outer harbour was built and took precedence for the town's export facilities.
	www.abc.net.au /tropic/stories/s1846537.htm (1134 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Special: East of Edfu (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		The town was an important entry port for the Nile Valley during the Roman occupation, as can be attested from a document discovered in the ruined guard house listing the tariff of taxes imposed on persons using the road.
		Berenice, the now totally deserted seaport on the Red Sea, was named by Ptolemy II (285-247 BC) after his mother, the queen of Egypt.
		Of these, the most interesting are those made by traders bringing riches from the east via the port of Berenice or importing elephants to be used in the wars of Ptolemy III and Ptolemy IV (figure 10).
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1999/417/special.htm (2684 words)

	The Maritime Incense Route: Berenice
		He named it after his mother, Berenike I. This port was originally created to aid in the importation of elephants for Ptolemy's army.
		As the Nabataeans were known to prey on Red Sea shipping, it was desirable to have a safe port as far to the south as possible.
		It was even unclear when the port had been abandoned.
	nabataea.net /berenice1.html (203 words)

	Berenica - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Berenica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Historic city and industrial port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sirte; population (1995 est) 545,000, urban agglomeration 804,000.
		It was finally captured by the British during the advance after the victory at El Alamein in November 1942 and so deprived the Italians of a vital supply port.
		This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Berenica (257 words)

	Coma Berenices
		Coma Berenices is one of the few constellations to be connected with a real person, Queen Berenice of Egypt.
		Berenice was very proud of the beauty of her hair.
		Berenice fulfilled her vow and sheared her locks, depositing her tresses in the temple at Zephyrium, which was dedicated to her mother Arsinoe.
	domeofthesky.com /clicks/com.html (139 words)

	pre-project report (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Islamic Aqaba was a thriving port, and a cultural medley, benefiting from the annual pilgrimage of Muslim pilgrims from Egypt, Syria, Palestine and Jordan to Mecca and Medina.
		When the muslim armies re-conquered the port in 1320, the Abbashid caliphs relocated their capitol from Damascus to Baghdad, and Aqaba’s importance as a trade and cultural center began to wane.
		The port’s reputation as a burgeoning city of trade and transit, which began to deteriorate during the Abbashid Empire, now shrank to a simple fishing village of little significance and was to remain so for 400 years.
	www.unesco.org /csi/act/jordan/preproject.htm (2346 words)

	The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea
		Of the designated ports on the Erythraean Sea, and the market-towns around it, the first is the Egyptian port of Mussel Harbor.
		Now to the left of Berenice, sailing for two or three days from Mussel Harbor eastward across the adjacent gulf, there is another harbor and fortified place, which is called White Village, from which there is a road to Petra, which is subject to Malichas, King of the Nabataeans.
		Three days inland from this port there is a city called Saua, in the midst of the region called Mapharitis; and there is a vassal-chief named Cholaebus who lives in that city.
	www.homestead.com /wysinger/periplus.html (5968 words)

	Dulcinea - Circumnavigation
		Leaving Port Moresby in Oct 1980 we set sail in a westerly direction to see if this was to be the life we wanted.
		It got plenty of use - to enter port it is necessary to go ashore at the capital Male an island in the main atoll where most of the people reside and also where the currents run strongest and deepest.
		It is characteristic of the Red Sea north of Port Sudan that the NW blows like stink for three to seven days then calm weather follows for a similar period.
	www.illywhacker.com /cruising_stories/circumnavigation.htm (7678 words)

	DRAVIDA PERAVAI-3
		This trade was carried on for many centuries through the Red Sea Ports from where the goods were carried overland to the Mediterranean ports of the early Roman Empire.
		Berenice, the largest and southern most Egyptian emporium required less effort to reach the Nile which is approximately only 260 k.m.
		The second overland route started from Leukos Limen port which was, of all the Roman Red Sea ports in Egypt, the closest to the Nile.
	www.angelfire.com /in2/dravidam/cult.htm (1770 words)

	International Trade Of Sindh From Its Port Barbaricon (Banbhore) 200 BC to 200 AD
		As the land route of 258 miles from Berenice to Coptos on the Nile took eleven days, he built a third port, Myos Hormes, in 274 BC, eighty miles north of Berenice, to cut down the distance to 180 miles and the journey to five days.
		Exports form this port consisted of costus (a plant for perfume), bdellium (an aromatic gum) bycium (a cosmetic), nard (Nalada ointment), turquoise, lapis lazuli (from Badakhshan), seric skins (from China), cotton cloth, silk yarn (from China) and indigo.
		Items of export from the Sindh port of Barbaricon were: the Chinese and Tibetian hides and furs, muslins, perfumes, unguents, pearls, precious stones specially beryl, iron, raw skins, dyed skins of Chinese origin, rough skins with furs left on and woolen coats of north western South Asia.
	www.panhwar.com /Article60.htm (6172 words)

	Caribbean Terms
		Berenice is available for cruises of any length subject to availability.
		Port entry, customs and other national travel levies will be charged at cost.
		Berenice is based in the listed Caribbean port or region and unless arranged otherwise will meet and return guests there.
	www.adventurecapital.ltd.uk /caribbean_terms.htm (510 words)

	Berenice Abbott- Great Photographer returns to MIT
		Berenice Abbott: Vision of the Twentieth Century, at the MIT Museum, through December 27.
		Of a changing New York, as the title of her 1939 book emphasizes: the metropolis and its population, then as now, were engaged in continuous metamorphosis.
		This article may be freely distributed electronically, provided it is distributed in its entirety and includes this notice, but may not be reprinted without the express written permission of The Tech.
	www-tech.mit.edu /V105/N39/abbot.39a.html (834 words)

	Quseir (Red Sea Coast) ... youregypt.com
		Nowadays the port's activities are limited to trade and there are a number of nearby beaches suitable for swimming and snorkeling.
		Alam -145 km (90 miles) south of Quseir- and Berenice -145 south of Marsa Alam-.
		Berenice dates back to Ptolemy II and was named after his mother.
	www.youregypt.com /eguide/destinations/redseacoast/quseir (134 words)

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		One of the great problems extent in Berenice during it's lifetime was the matter of providing a significant water supply to the inhabitants of the city.
		The greater part of available water came from local wells, but whether the water was piped into the city or whether it was brought on the backs of animal trains is not known at this time.
		Berenice was a widely diverse ethnic community with the representation of many different cultural groups and religions.
	livinghistoryengineer.com /roman/eagle/01January_Eagle_files/January_Eagle.htm (3823 words)

	The Herald : LaFemme : issues.htm
		RAPE Crisis in Port Elizabeth has opened a new counselling and advice centre in Motherwell to give hope to victims of sexual violence and domestic abuse.
		PORT Elizabeth’s Rape Crisis Counselling and Advice Centre director Berenice Jacobs-Malgas said new volunteers were always welcome, and would receive training.
		The University of Port Elizabeth assisted in training counsellors through its street law programme, she said, while Childline and Famsa had also been involved.
	www.theherald.co.za /femme/2004/02/18/issues.htm (659 words)

	Berenice, Egypt
		The remains of the once-important port of Berenice lie in the same latitude as Aswan in a spacious bay in the Red Sea, the Halig Umm el Ketef (the "unsafe bay"), which is enclosed on the north by the Ras Banas Peninsula and forms an excellent sheltered harbor.
		The town was founded by Ptolemy II Philadelphus in 275 B.C. with the object of reviving trade in the Red Sea and was given the name of his mother.
		Situated at the end of the great caravan routes from Coptos (Qift) and Edfu in the Nile Valley to the Red Sea, it was for four or five centuries one of the most important ports on the Red Sea coast, carrying on trade with India, Arabia and the east coast of Africa.
	www.planetware.com /egypt/berenice-egy-red-beren.htm (174 words)

	Berenice - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Berenice or Berenike (Greek: Βερενίκη, Berenikē) is a Macedonian name, meaning "bearer of victory" (corresponding to Greek *phere-nikē).
		Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III
		Berenice III of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berenice (263 words)

	North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1 - Portland Museum of Art - Absolutearts.com
		North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1 will be on view from September 21, 2000 through December 3, 2000 at the Portland Museum of Art.
		Typically, Berenice Abbott has taken years to journal Paris and New York City, in contrast the Route 1 documentation allowed her only one moment of one summer with her selected subject matter.
		North and South: Berenice Abbott's U.S. Route 1 captures a variety of subject matter, from the ferris wheels that spotted the landscape to the people who inhabited it.
	www.absolutearts.com /artsnews/2000/09/21/27475.html (572 words)

	Michael Shanks - site 2006: Matt's Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		But to achieve maximum profits, the system, from ports of entry to urban markets, had to be efficient, secure, and sophisticated in its infrastructure.
		During the next step in the trade distribution sequence, goods from the ports of Myos Hormos and Berenicê were loaded onto pack animals in caravans and transported over land on two heavily fortified roads which connected Coptos in the Thebaid to the Red Sea coast.
		The Roman administration considered the controlled movement of goods between the Red Sea ports and Coptos a necessary feature of the tax collection structure, which will be treated in detail in the next section.
	traumwerk.stanford.edu:3455 /MichaelShanks/280 (4258 words)

	Berenice - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Berenice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		Opera by Handel (libretto by A Salvi), first produced at Covent Garden, London, England, on 18 May 1737.
		The complex plot concerns the love problems of the Egyptian queen Berenice before her marriage to Alexander; politics, jealousy, and anger are happily resolved in the end.
		There is also an earlier opera on the same subject by Giacomo Perti (libretto by A Salvi), first produced at the Villa Pratolino near Florence, Italy, in September 1709.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Berenice (134 words)

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		Berenice, after the name of the wife of Ptolomais I. At the
		Ptolemais, port of Barka, is considered by many historians
		Greeks on the coast and may have been used as another port
	www.coptnet.com /Pope-Books/Stmark/page0036.htm (119 words)

	Excavations at Berenike, Egypt
		All of these were ports active in Roman to Early Islamic times.
		There was much debate about what the complex was, but the base of an alter (center), a large bronze cross and several oil lamps with Christian motifs convinced everyone that it was a church.
		Beyond the structure, the brown mud flats leading to the Red Sea were not there in ancient times and the church stood imposingly at the edge of the port.
	beadbugle.com /html/excavations_at_berenike__egypt.html (1301 words)

	Excavations at Berenike, Egypt
		All of these were ports active in Roman to Early Islamic times.
		There was much debate about what the complex was, but the base of an alter (center), a large bronze cross and several oil lamps with Christian motifs convinced everyone that it was a church.
		Beyond the structure, the brown mud flats leading to the Red Sea were not there in ancient times and the church stood imposingly at the edge of the port.
	www.beadbugle.com /html/excavations_at_berenike__egypt.html (1301 words)

	Red Sea Pilot
		Two pairs of port and starboard-hand buoys lead to the port entrance as well as a set of directional lights (stay in the white sector).
		Port Health are inside the port on the S side of the road where Police is marked on the sketch.
		Port dues vary according to tonnage, time in harbour, etc. For an average 12m boat they work out at about US$5 per day and are payable when you clear out with the port captain.
	www.imray.com /corrections/096.html (22785 words)

	Far south: Berenice to the Sudanese border, Egypt. Travel guide & tourist information by Hostelbookers.com
		Nowadays, Berenice amounts to a few characterless buildings clustered together in a windswept bay, with little to interest tourists except a Bedouin museum apparently instigated by the wife of the Belgian ambassador to Egypt.
		For climbers, there is the challenge of Egypt's "most aggressive peaks", Jebel Farayid (whose highest point was reached by Murray in 1925) and the Berenice Bodkin – the largest rock needle in the whole of North Africa and the Middle East.
		As yet there is no tourist accommodation in the area, and official permission must be obtained from police in Berenice or Shalateen if you wish to camp.
	www.hostelbookers.com /guides/egypt/far_south:_berenice_to_the_sudanese_border (486 words)

	Eernisse Funeral
		Berenice Rettler age 80 years, of Port Washington, passed away Tuesday May 6, 2003 at St. MaryÂ’s Hospice in Milwaukee.
		She was born December 10, 1922 in Kaukauna, WI daughter of the late Ulysses and Ethel Verhasselt Mitchell.
		She is survived by her children Thomas (Chris) of Sheboygan, Mary (David) Putzer of Gainesville, GA, Nicholas (Kathy) of Appleton, Monica (Tom) Falk of Port Washington and Cynthia (Thomas) Birk of Maumee, OH.
	www.funeralplan.com /eernisse/archive?id=10177 (221 words)

	Egypt - The Red Sea Coast, Berenice (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-18)
		The ancient city of Berenice, named by Ptolemy II Philadelphos after his mother, became a trading port in 275 BC.
		A ruined Temple of Semiramis built by Trajan and Tiberius is near the modern town and, inland, there are the remains of the emerald mines of Wadi Sakait, which were worked from Pharaonic to Roman times.
		While Berenice is famous for it's fishing, it also has some of Egypt's best health spas.
	www.touregypt.net /Berenice.htm (188 words)

	Elath (BiblePlaces.com)
		Though beyond "Dan to Beersheba," this southern port on the Red Sea was the envy of several kings of Judah.
		The Jordanian port city is Aqaba and sometimes the gulf is known by by that name.
		Eilat Port (Israel Ports and Railway Authority) Details the important commercial aspect of the city with a brief overview of the port.
	www.bibleplaces.com /eilat.htm (728 words)

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		Ports and Anchorages on the West Coast of India
		Ports and Anchorages on the North East Coast of Oman
		Ports on the North and North East Coast of Sumatera
	www.chartsales.com /suz2singcontent3.htm (222 words)

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