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Oxyrhynchus

city in Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt
Place ancient_city Q622640

Facts

6 properties

Identity

Instance of
ancient city, archaeological site[5]

Location

Country
Egypt[4]
Location
el-Bahnasa[6]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 28.536°, 30.656°[7]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Egypt, Minya Governorate[2][3]
More facts +1
Described by source
New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa[8][9]
🏷️ Also known as
en Al-Bahnasa en Oxyrhynchus ar أوكسيرينخوس cs Oxyrhynchus cs Oxyrhynchos da Oxyrhynchus de Oxyrhynchus de Oxyrynchos el Οξύρρυγχος es El-Bahnasa es El Bahnasa es Oxirrinco es Oxyrhynchus fa اوکسیرینخوس fi Oksyrhynkhos fi Oxyrhynchus fi Oxyrhynkhos fr Al-Bahnasah fr El-Behnesèh fr Ouab Sep-meri
🔖 Identifiers · 31
VIAF cluster ID
316431443
Library of Congress authority ID
n91128297
GND ID
4044250-0
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
عمود القديعة بالبهنسا.jpg ↗
Alvin ID
alvin-place:6768
BHCL UUID
44479e90-4ba1-4d1f-b934-02ed300674ef
Biblissima authority ID
Wikidata item
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Oxyrhynchus
Freebase ID
/m/0dqhrj
GeoNames ID
361471
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID
oxyrhynchos
Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID (former scheme)
0048078, 0247948
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Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID (2017)
2687462
Great Russian Encyclopedia portal ID
oksirinkh-a10f23
Kulturenvanteri monument ID
339187
Lex ID
Oxyrhynchos
Museum-digital place ID
19057
NL CR AUT ID
ge810450
National Historical Museums of Sweden ID
geo/79c3f9c4-cc50-41be-832f-14f1fa3ec133
National Library of Greece ID
281221
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987013002781305171
Oxford Classical Dictionary ID
4639
Pleiades ID
736983
Schoenberg Database of Manuscripts place ID
1124
Topic's main category
Category:Oxyrhynchus
ToposText place ID
285306UOxy
Trismegistos Geo ID
1524
Vici.org ID
11302
Vikidia article ID
fr:Oxyrhynque
Who's on First ID
1209899993
Yale LUX ID
place/1cebd85c-d0be-41d1-b10d-dc375cba8f4b

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🔗 Connections
← Location of discovery 6
Oxyrhynchus Papyri, Papyrus 1, Papyrus 9, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 208 + 1781, Papyrus Oxyrhynchus 222, Oxyrhynchus Papyrus 840
Country 1
Egypt
Instance of 1
archaeological site
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Egypt
Named after 1
Oxyrhynchus Papyri
People born here 1
Pope Mark VII of Alexandria
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Summary

Oxyrhynchus is an ancient city[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Egypt[2], a sovereign state[10], in Egypt[11], founded in 1922[12] and Minya Governorate[3], a governorate of Egypt[13], in Egypt[14].

Cultural Significance

Things named for Oxyrhynchus include Oxyrhynchus Papyri[15], a manuscript collection[16].

Why It Matters

Entities named for Oxyrhynchus include Oxyrhynchus Papyri[15], a manuscript collection[16].

Related Entities

Egypt

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [10] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [11] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [12] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [14] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  6. [16] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · THEbotIT bot · 2026-10-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'ca', 'ceb', 'cs', 'da', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'eo', 'es', 'eu',
    Image commons → —
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa
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    + 6 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Described by source: Pauly–Wissowa, Add reference to a lexicon article."
  2. 15w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-23 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority ID → Wikidata item
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority ID: Q83951, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/31afc9a6fd8|details]])"
  3. 18w ago · Andre Engels · 2026-06-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Local thumb → —
    Instance of → —
    Described by source → New Encyclopedic Dictionary, Pauly–Wissowa
    Image → عمود القديعة بالبهنسا.jpg
    + 13 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Oxford Classical Dictionary ID: 4639, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/107286758|Oxyrhynchus (#107286758)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/4102|Oxford Clas"
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