Antinoöpolis

Antinoopolis was an ancient city in Upper Egypt, in the Minya Governorate, on the eastern bank of the Nile nearly opposite Hermopolis Magna. The Roman emperor Hadrian founded it on the site of the older Egyptian village of Besa to honor his companion Antinous, who had drowned nearby in 130 AD and whom Hadrian deified. The city included a triumphal arch and was linked by the Via Hadriana to the Red Sea port of Berenice Troglodytica.