Editing Leontopolis (section)

==Name==
Known most popularly in the modern era and to scholarship by its traditional [[Greek language|Greek]] name '''Leontopolis''' {{lang|grc|Λεόντων πόλις}}<ref>[[Ptolemy|Ptol.]] iv. 5. § 51, [[Strabo]] xvii. pp. 802, 812</ref> (literally, "city of lions"), or '''Leonto''' {{lang|grc|Λεοντώ}}, ("lion"),<ref>Hieronym. ''ad Jovian.'' ii. 6</ref> the demographic makeup of the city varied culturally and linguistically over its long history, and the Greek name was progressively used more and more over the native [[Egyptian language|Egyptian]] '''Taremu '''("Land of Fish").<ref>GDG VI, 26; LÄ VI, 351</ref> After the annexation of [[Ptolemaic dynasty|Ptolemaic Egypt]] as a [[Roman Egypt|Roman province]], the city retained the Greek name, and was referred to in [[Latin]] sources as the [[oppidum]] '''Leontos''',<ref>[[Pliny the Elder|Plin.]] v. 20. s. 17</ref> though the Egyptian name still lingered among primary speakers of [[Coptic language|Coptic Egyptian]] into the [[post-classical history|post-classical period]]. Today, the site itself is referred to in [[Arabic]] as '''Tell el-Muqdam''' ("mound of the city").