Cleopatra was not Egyptian: her Ptolemaic dynasty was Macedonian Greek.

51 BC · 30 BC · apart: 21 years

According to Plutarch she was the first of her line, in more than 250 years, to learn the Egyptian language.

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• Death of Cleopatra30 BC · Alexandria. After the defeat at Actium and Mark Antony's suicide, the last Ptolemaic queen took her own life as Octavian entered Alexandria. Egypt became a Roman province, ending the age of the Hellenistic kingdoms.

1st century BC

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