Article Series Egyptian Sites

Places

Prefectures / cities Monuments / Temples

Region

Lower Egypt / Middle Egypt Upper Egypt / Nubia

Location

The great capitals of Egypt, Thebes , Memphis , Pi-Ramses , marked the descriptions of Greek geographers who have ensured continuity in the cultural memory. But every Egyptian had a special connection to "his city" which has enabled the Egyptian literature to take the city to be the point of producing a literary genre, the praise of the city , own the New Kingdom.

In terms of planning , some cities in asserting a historical association between the temple city and regional administrative capital.

Geographic distribution

Egypt

Cities of Ancient Egypt in each prefecture
Lower Egypt		Upper Egypt
1 Nome Memphis 2 e nome Letopolis 3rd nome Apis Hermopolis Parva 4 th nome Offered 5 th nome Sais 6 th nome Buto Xois 7 th nome Half-n-Hor Metel 8 th nome Hronpolis Pithom 9 e nome Busiris 10 th nome Athribis 11 th nome Leontopolis Pharbaethos	12 th nome Sebennytos 13 th nome Heliopolis (Egypt) 14 th nome Tanis Taphnis Silesian 15 th nome Hermopolis (Bahu) 16 th nome Mendes 17 th nome Behedet Kate Diospolis Diospolis parva 18 th nome Bubastis 19 th nome Leontopolis Tanis 20 th nome Per-Sopdu	1 Nome Philae Elephantine Kom Ombo 2 e nome Apollinopolis 3rd nome Hierakonpolis ( Nekhen ) Eileithyaspolis ( El Kab ) Latopolis Hermonthis 4 th nome Thebes also called Magna Diospolis 5 th nome Coptos Ombos also named Noubt 6 th nome Dendera also named Tentyra 7 th nome Diospolis parva 8 th nome Abydos This 9 e nome Panopolis ( Akhmim ) Khemmis	10 th nome Aphroditopolis 11 th nome Hypselistes 12 th nome Antaeopolis 13 th nome Lycopolis ( Assiut ) 14 th nome Cusae 15 th nome Hermopolis Magna 16 th nome Theodosiopolis ( Hebenou ) 17 th nome Cynopolis 18 th nome Hipponos 19 th nome Oxyrhynchus 20 th nome Herakleopolis 21 th nome Crocodilopolis Arsinoe 22 e nome Aphroditopolis

Nubia

• Napata
• Meroe