Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Ptolemaios-dynastiet" in Danish language version.
They were members of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Macedonian Greeks, who ruled Egypt after the death of its conqueror, Alexander the Great.
while Ptolemaic Egypt was a monarchy with a Greek ruling class.
Ptolemaic kings were still crowned at Memphis and the city was popularly regarded as the Egyptian rival to Alexandria, founded by the Macedonian Greeks.
During the Ptolemaic period, when Egypt was governed by rulers of Greek descent...