Taua
Ταῦα
Taua (Ταῦα, Steph. B. sub voce Ταούα, Ptol. 4.5.50; Taba, Itin. Ant. p. 153), a town in Lower Aegypt, situated on the left bank of the Canopic arm of the Nile, S. of the city of Naucratis. It was the capital of the small Phthemphuthic Nome (Plin. Nat. 5.9. s. 9), and is supposed to be represented by the present Thaouah. (D'Anville, Memoire sur l'Egypte, vol. i. p. 82.)
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.