Berenice
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Berenice or Berenike (Greek: Βερενίκη, Berenikē) is a Macedonian name, meaning "bearer of victory" (corresponding to Greek *phere-nikē). It may refer to:
- people
- several Ptolemaic and Seleucid queens in Cyrenaica and Egypt:
- Berenice I of Egypt, mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I
- Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II and wife of Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos
- Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III
- Berenice III of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX. She first married Ptolemy X, later Ptolemy XI
- Berenice IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII and elder sister of Cleopatra
- three Judean princesses,
- places
- the Libyan city of Benghazi which used to be called Berenice
- a series of ancient ports on the Red Sea:
- Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica, the largest and most famous of them
- Berenice Panchrysos, near Sabae
- Berenice Epideires, near the mouth of the Red Sea
- works of authorship
- Bérénice, a tragedy by the French dramatist Jean Racine
- Berenice, an opera by George Frideric Händel
- Bérénice (Magnard), an opera by Albéric Magnard after Racine.
- "Berenice", a short story by Edgar Allan Poe
- rocketry
- Berenice 001 to 012, a series of French experimental rockets
- botany
- the Berenice, a plant belonging to the Campanulaceae family.
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