It may be derived from an Iranian ethnonym * ha-mazan -, " warriors ", a word attested as a denominal verb ( formed with the Indo-Iranian root kar-" make " also in kar-ma ) in Hesychius of Alexandria's gloss (" hamazakaran: ' to make war ' ( Persian )").

Alexandria's population was also close to Rome's population at around the same time, the historian Rostovtzeff estimates a total population close to a million based on a census dated from 32 AD that counted 180, 000 adult male citizens in Alexandria.

Origen of Alexandria's other teachings about the possibility of glorified man falling again also played a role in that condemnation.

The suppressed Greek Gospel of the Egyptians, ( which is quite distinct from the later, wholly Gnostic Coptic Gospel of the Egyptians ), perhaps written in the second quarter of the 2nd century, was already cited in Clement of Alexandria's miscellany, the Stromata, where quotations give us many of the brief excerpts that are all that remain ; it was also mentioned by Hippolytus, who alludes to " these various changes of the soul, set forth in the Gospel entitled according to the Egyptians " and connects the Gospel of the Egyptians with the Gnostic Naassene sect.

Beyond his being considered a member of Alexandria's Greek society, few details of Ptolemy's life are known for certain.

The translation of St. Cyril of Alexandria's synodical letter against Nestorius, and some other works long attributed to Dionysius are now acknowledged to be earlier and are assigned to Marius Mercator.

He wrote commentaries on Euclid and Archimedes, and improved Ishaq ibn Hunain's translation of Menelaus of Alexandria's Spherics.

About two years after Cyril of Alexandria's death in 444, an aged monk from Constantinople named Eutyches began teaching a subtle variation on the traditional Christology in an attempt ( as he described in a letter to Pope Leo I in 448 ) to stop a new outbreak of Nestorianism.

Dioscorus then pressed his advantage by having Cyril of Alexandria's Twelve Anathemas posthumously declared orthodox with the intent of condemning any confession other than one nature in Christ.

There is a growing consensus among historians that the Library of Alexandria likely suffered from several destructive events, but that the destruction of Alexandria's pagan temples in the late 4th century was probably the most severe and final one.

French archeologists led by Jean-Yves Empereur discovered remains of the lighthouse in late 1994 on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour.

* Having driven out the Jews, Alexandria's new patriarch, Cyril, has instigated the mob after taking offense at Hypatia's scientific rationalism.

* The Lighthouse of Alexandria's final remains disappear when Qaitbay, Sultan of Egypt, builds the Citadel of Qaitbay on its site.

For example, Hesychius of Alexandria's Lexicon ( 5th century AD ) defines Agiadae as a " place in Lacedaemonia " named after Agis.

* May 9 – Alexandria's patriarch Bishop Alexander dies and is succeeded by his deacon Athanasius.

According to Clement of Alexandria's Exhortation to the Greeks.

* A 110 metre tall lighthouse on the island of Pharos in Alexandria's harbour is completed and serves as a landmark for ships in the eastern Mediterranean.

As of the census of 2000, there were 8, 820 people, however the most recent count suggests a population upwards of 10, 000, which is displayed on Alexandria's city limits signs.

Alexandria Echo Press is Alexandria's major twice-weekly newspaper.

Alexandria's post office was established in 1880, and the city later incorporated in 1885.

* Pamphilus of Alexandria's comprehensive lexicon in 95 books of foreign or obscure words.

Growing up, he attended Alexandria's elite Victoria College.

The area's name lends itself to Alexandria's local football club, Vale of Leven F. C., the secondary school, Vale of Leven Academy, and the Vale of Leven District General Hospital, as well as other local organisations.

When it was created, it was Alexandria's third public high school.

Lloyd attended Parker-Gray High School, which was Alexandria's all-black high school at the time.

Epiphanius confused Philo of Alexandria's description of the Therapeutae with " Jessaens ," ( Iessaioi ), according, incorrectly, to Epiphanius a Christian group.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

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Both Benedict Biscop and Ceolfrith had acquired books from the Continent, and in Bede's day the monastery was a renowned centre of learning.

Cairo would eventually become a centre of learning, with the library of Cairo containing hundreds of thousands of books.

Today, Cairo is the centre for many government offices governing the Egyptian educational system, has the largest number of educational schools, and higher learning institutes among other cities and governorates of Egypt.

Through the reputation of its venerable founder and its position as a major European centre of learning, Columba's Iona became a place of pilgrimage.

Ephrem is popularly credited as the founder of the School of Nisibis, which in later centuries was the centre of learning of the Syriac Orthodox Church.

An important centre of learning and training for Irish priests developed in Leuven ( Lúbhan in Irish and Louvain historically in English ) in the Duchy of Brabant, now in Flanders ( northern Belgium ).

To facilitate interdisciplinary learning and research in diverse fields, there are a number of schools and centre for studies.

The learning resource centre of the DL has around sixty nodes for accessing digital data both on the internet as well as the internal database of the university.

The city serves as the nation's cultural and learning centre, situated above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River.

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His son Idris II erected a splendid new capital at Fes and launched Morocco as a centre of learning and a major power.

Apart from its centres of learning, the campus features the Macquarie University Research Park, museums, art galleries, a sculpture park, an observatory, a sport and aquatic centre, a fauna park and also the private Macquarie University Hospital.

In this process also known as the Danka system Buddhist-temples were generally not only a centre of Buddhist practice and learning, but were forced carry out administrative functions thereby also being controlled by the government taming any missionary activities.

The Roman College of the Jesuits grew substantially under his patronage, and became the most important centre of learning in Europe for a time, known as the University of the Nations.

He received further theological training in the Benedictine monastery and minster of Nhutscelle ( Nursling ), not far from Winchester, which under the direction of abbot Winbert had grown into an industrious centre of learning in the tradition of Aldhelm.

The Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt, is a major centre of Sunni Islamic learning in the world.

For example, Taxila was an early centre of Vedic learning, possible from the 6th century BC or earlier ; the Platonic Academy founded in Athens in the 4th century BC seems to have included theological themes in its subject matter ; the Chinese Taixue delivered Confucian teaching from the 2nd century BC ; the School of Nisibis was a centre of Christian learning from the 4th century AD ; Nalanda in India was a site of Buddhist higher learning from at least the 5th or 6th century AD ; and the Moroccan University of Al-Karaouine was a centre of Islamic learning from the 10th century, as was Al-Azhar University in Cairo.