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Karanis area : Greek Roman
Karanis, located in
modern Kom Aushim, was an agricultural town in Graeco-Roman Egypt, located in
the northeast corner of the Fayoum. It was one of a number of towns established
in the Arsinoite nome under Ptolemy II Philadelphus as part of a scheme to
settle Greek mercenaries among the indigenous Egyptians and to exploit the
potential fertile Fayoum basin.
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