Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)

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Diospŏlis

（Διόσπολις).

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1.

Magna, a famous city of Egypt. (See Thebae.)

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2.

Parva, a city of Egypt, west of Tentyra, and on the western side of the Nile. It was the capital of the nome Diospolites.