Berenice

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Berenice or Berenike (bernikē) is a Macedonian name, meaning "bearer of victory" (corresponding to Greek *phere-nikē). It refers to:

several Ptolemaic and Seleucid queens in Cyrenaica and Egypt,
- Berenice I of Egypt, mother of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy I.
- Berenice, daughter of Ptolemy II and wife of Seleucid monarch Antiochus II Theos.
- Berenice II of Egypt, daughter of Magas of Cyrene and wife of Ptolemy III.
- Berenice III of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy IX. She first married Ptolemy X, later Ptolemy XI.
- Berenice IV of Egypt, daughter of Ptolemy XII and elder sister of Cleopatra.
two Judean princesses,
- Berenice, daughter of Salome Alexandra, sister of Herod the Great.
- Berenice, daughter of Agrippa I, king of Judaea.
the ancient Red Sea port Berenice or Berenice Troglodytica,
the Libyan city of Benghazi which used to be called Berenice,
Bérénice, a tragedy by the French dramatist Jean Racine,
Berenice, a short story by Edgar Allan Poe,
Berenice 001 to 012, a series of French experimental rockets, and
the Berenice, a plant belonging to the Campanulaceae family.