Berenice
Berenice or Berenike (bernikē) is a Macedonian name, meaning "bearer of victory" (corresponding to Greek *phere-nikē). It refers to:
- several Ptolemaic and Seleucid queens (see below) in Cyrenaica and Egypt,
- two Judean princesses (see below),
- the ancient Red Sea port Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica,
- the Libyan city of Benghazi which used to be called Berenice,
- Bérénice , a tragedy by the French dramatist Jean Racine,
- Berenice , a short story by Edgar Allan Poe,
- Berenice 001 to 012, a series of French experimental rockets, and
- the Berenice , a plant belonging to the Campanulaceae family.
Ptolemaic and Seleucid queens
Judean princesses
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