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Cleopatra
Cleopatra VII Thea Philopator (; 70/69 BC10 or 12 August 30 BC) was Queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and the last active Hellenistic pharaoh. A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. Her first language was Koine Greek, and she is the only Ptolemaic ruler known to have learned the Egyptian language, among several others. After her death, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the Hellenistic period in the Mediterranean,
death of Cleopatra
a significant event marking the death of the penultimate Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt in 30 BC
Zakaria Goneim
Egyptian egyptologist
Inşirah Hanım
Consort of Şehzade Mehmed Vahideddin
Paul Kraus
Czech Jewish Arabist (1904–1944)

Meir Max Bineth
Israeli Spy