Berenice Epideires

Berenice Epideires

Deirê
Shown within Djibouti
Location	Djibouti
Region	Obock Region
Coordinates	12°28′N 43°18′E

Berenice Epideires (Greek: Βερενίκη ἐπὶ Δειρῆς, Steph. B. s. v.; Strabo xvi. pp. 769, 773; Mela, iii. 8; Plin. vi. 34; Ptol. viii. 16. § 12), or "Berenice upon the Neck of Land", was a town on the western shore of the Red Sea. It was located near the Bab-el-Mandeb strait, in modern-day Djibouti. The settlement's position on a sandy spit or promontory was the cause of its distinctive appellation. Some authorities, however, attribute the name to the neighborhood of a more considerable town named Cape Deirê on the Ras Siyyan peninsula. Strabon mentions the mangroves that were found there on the coast.

Literature

• Lionel Casson: The Periplus Maris Erythraei: text, translation, and commentary. Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J. 1989, ISBN 0-691-04060-5.
• Getzel M. Cohen: The Hellenistic Settlements in Syria, the Red Sea Basin, and North Africa. University of California Press, Berkeley Calif. 2006, ISBN 0-520-24148-7.
• George Fadlo Hourani: Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean. Princeton University Press, Princeton N.J. 1951.
• G. W. B. Huntingford (Hrsg.): The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea, by an unknown author: with some extracts from Agatharkhides ‘On the Erythraean Sea’ (= Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. 2nd series, Nr. 151). Hakluyt Society, London 1980.
• Katja Mueller: Settlements of the Ptolemies: City foundations and new settlement in the Hellenistic World (= Studia Hellenistica. Band 43). Peeters, Leuven 2006, ISBN 90-429-1709-1.
• D. Schlingloff: Indische Seefahrer in römischer Zeit. In: Hermann Müller-Karpe (Hrsg.) Zur geschichtlichen Bedeutung der frühen Seefahrt. Beck, München 1982, ISBN 3-406-09042-7, S. 51–82.

References

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Smith, William, ed. (1854–1857). Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London: John Murray. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)