Hypsela
Ὑψήλη
Hypsela (Ὑψήλη, Ptol. 4.5.64; Ὕψηλις, Steph. B. sub voce (Ὑψηλοπολιτῶν πόλις, Socrat. H. E. 1.32: Eth. Ὑψηλίτης), the capital of the Nomon Hypselites in Upper Egypt. (Lat. 27° N.) It stood on the western side of the Nile, nearly opposite Astaeopolis.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.