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- Country
- Located in
- Founded
- 4000 BCE
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13 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Capital of
- Egypt(-3032–-2707)
On other databases
6 identifiers linking Thinis across the web's reference databases
13 statements · 15% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
6 identifiers linking Thinis across the web's reference databases
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Thinis was the capital city of pre-unification Upper Egypt. Thinis remains undiscovered but is well attested by ancient writers, including the classical historian Manetho, who cites it as the centre of the Thinite Confederacy, a tribal confederation whose leader, Menes, united Egypt and was its first pharaoh. Thinis began a steep decline in importance when the capital was relocated to Memphis, which was thought to be the first true and stable capital after the unification of Egypt by Menes. Thinis's location on the border of the competing Heracleopolitan and Theban dynasties of the First Intermediate Period and its proximity to certain oases of possible military importance ensured Thinis some continued significance in the Old and New Kingdoms. This was a brief respite and Thinis eventually lost its position as a regional administrative centre by the Roman period.