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Categories: Lighthouses in Egypt, Buildings and structures in Alexandria, Articles with short description, Coordinates on Wikidata, Ptolemaic Alexandria
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Tower of Pharos  Lighthouse of Alexandria  Alexandria Lighthouse  Great Lighthouse  Lighthouse at Alexandria  Pharos
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A great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC WordNet 3.0
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A great lighthouse (500 feet high) built at Alexandria in 285 BC WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, sometimes called the Pharos of Alexandria, was a lighthouse built by the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Ancient Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus. Wikipedia
Lighthouse in Egypt, built in the 3rd century BC and destroyed in the Middle Ages Wikidata
IS A
beacon
ancient lighthouse
destroyed building or structure
PART OF
Seven Wonders of the Ancient World
ARCHITECT
Sostratus of Cnidus
ARCHITECTURAL STYLE
Hellenistic architecture
COMMISSIONED BY
Ptolemy I
COUNTRY
ancient Egypt
CULTURE
Greece
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
LOCATED IN OR NEXT TO BODY OF WATER
Mediterranean
Nile Delta
LOCATED IN THE ADMINISTRATIVE TERRITORIAL ENTITY
Alexandria
LOCATION
Pharos
NAMED AFTER
Pharos
SHAPE
circle
square
octagon
SIGNIFICANT EVENT
earthquake
1303 Crete earthquake
demolition
WordNet 3.0
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Tower of Pharos
Open English WordNet
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Lighthouse of Alexandria, Tower of Pharos
Wikipedia
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
Wikidata
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Lighthouse of Alexandria
Wikipedia Redirections
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Alexandria lighthouse, Alexandria Lighthouse, Great Lighthouse, Lighthouse at Alexandria, Lighthouse of alexandria, Lighthouse of Pharos, Pharos, Pharos lighhtouse, Pharos Lighthouse, Pharos of Alexandria, The Lighthouse at Alexandria
Wikidata Alias
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Alexandria Lighthouse, Lighthouse Wonder of the Ancient World, Pharos of Alexandria

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