Cusae

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title: "Cusae" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["asyut-governorate", "cities-in-ancient-egypt", "archaeological-sites-in-egypt", "roman-legionary-fortresses-in-egypt", "catholic-titular-sees-in-africa", "roman-fortifications-in-egypt"] topic_path: "geography" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cusae" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

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Field	Value
name	Cusae
native_name	{{Script/Coptic
{{Script/Coptic	ⲕⲟⲥⲉⲓ}}
native_name_lang	grc
other_name	القوصية
settlement_type	City
image_map	Map Cusae Description de l'Egypte.jpg
map_caption	Old map of Cusae from Description de l'Égypte
pushpin_map	Egypt
pushpin_relief	yes
pushpin_mapsize	300
coordinates
subdivision_type	Country
subdivision_name	Egypt
subdivision_name1	Asyut
unit_pref	Metric
area_urban_footnotes
area_rural_footnotes
area_metro_footnotes
area_magnitude
population_density_km2	auto
timezone1	EST
utc_offset1	+2
website
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History

Cusae was the capital of the 14th Nome of Upper Egypt.

Middle Kingdom

It was a cult centre for Hathor, and also contained a necropolis, Meir, which was used during the Middle Kingdom to hold the tombs of local aristocrats.

New Kingdom

At the beginning of the reign of the Theban pharaoh Kamose, Cusae marked the boundary between the northern Hyksos realm (the 15th Dynasty) and the southern Theban kingdom (the 17th Dynasty).

Roman Period

During the 5th century, the city was the settlement of Legio II Flavia Constantia.

Bishopric

The bishopric of Cusae was a suffragan of the metropolitan see of Antinoë, capital of the Roman province of Thebaid I. Achilles (or Achilleus) was ordained bishop of the see by Meletius of Lycopolis. Another, Elias, was of the 4th or 5th centuries. Theonas took part in the Second Council of Constantinople (553). Later bishops took the non-Chalcedonian side, the first of them being Gregorius, who assisted Pope John II (III) of Alexandria on his deathbed.

No longer a residential bishopric, Cusae is today listed by the Catholic Church as a titular see.

References

References

5. (1920). "An Egyptian hieroglyphic dictionary: with an index of English words, king list and geological list with indexes, list of hieroglyphic characters, coptic and semitic alphabets, etc. Vol II". [[John Murray (publishing house).
6. (1928). "Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 5".
7. Grimal, Nicolas. (1992). "A History of Ancient Egypt". Blackwell Books.
8. S. Timm, ''Das christlich-koptische Ägypten'', Wiesbaden 1982-1992, 2181 e 2189 n. 4.
9. Michel Lequien, [https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_86weAemI-e4C ''Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus''], Paris 1740, Vol. II, coll. 595-598
10. Raymond Janin, v. ''Cusae'' in [http://booksnow.scholarsportal.info/ebooks/oca2/4/dictionnairedhis13bauduoft/dictionnairedhis13bauduoft.pdf ''Dictionnaire d'Histoire et de Géographie ecclésiastiques''], vol. XIII, Paris 1956, col. 1117
11. [[Klaas Worp
12. [http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04575b.htm Sophrone Pétridès, "Cusae"] in ''[[Catholic Encyclopedia]]'' (New York 1908)
13. ''Annuario Pontificio 2013'' (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 2013 {{ISBN. 978-88-209-9070-1), p. 878

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