The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire · Location

Syene

Also known as Aswan

  • city
  • Egyptian/Roman

The frontier town of Syene, modern Aswan, at the First Cataract of the Nile. It marked the southern edge of Roman Egypt facing Nubia.

Type
city
Style
Egyptian/Roman
First appears
Book 1 · Ch. 144
Books
1

History

  1. BOOK 1The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire / Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes)

    The frontier town of Syene, modern Aswan, at the First Cataract of the Nile. It marked the southern edge of Roman Egypt facing Nubia.

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