City:
Siteseeing:
Tanis : Pharaonic
Tanis was founded in the late Twentieth Dynasty, and
became the northern capital of Egypt during the following Twenty-first Dynasty.
It was the home city of Smendes, founder of the 21st dynasty. During the Twenty-second
Dynasty Tanis remained as Egypt's political capital (though there were
sometimes rival dynasties located elsewhere in Upper Egypt).
It was an important
commercial and strategic city until it was threatened with inundation by Lake
Manzala in the 6th century AD, when it was finally abandoned. The refugees
founded the nearby city of Tennis.
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