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Is it true that Cleopatra wasn't really Egyptian?

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There were several Egyptian queens named Cleopatra, but the famous one we think of when we say "Cleopatra" was actually not of Egyptian blood. Her bloodlines were Greek, Persian, and Macedonian. Her Greek ancestors had ruled Greece since the death of Alexander the Great.

 


 

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