The Last Ptolemaic Ruler: Cleopatra VII (51–30 BCE)

51 BCE · İskenderiye · political

Cleopatra VII was the only ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty who spoke Egyptian and knew more than one language.

She allied herself in turn with Caesar and with Antony, striving to keep Egypt independent of Roman domination; after Actium she took her own life. | The end of the Ptolemaic dynasty and of an independent Egypt; "the last ruler of the Hellenistic age".

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