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Who Was the Last Pharaoh of Egypt?

Last Ptolemaic ruler of Egypt?

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What is the answer to 'Who was the last pharaoh of Egypt?'

Cleopatra VII. She was the final ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty, which had governed Egypt for nearly 300 years after Alexander the Great.

Was Cleopatra VII Egyptian?

Not by blood. She ruled Egypt but descended from the Ptolemies, a Greek-Macedonian dynasty, and was famously the first of that line to actually learn the Egyptian language.

Who ruled Egypt after Cleopatra VII?

No one as pharaoh. After her death in 30 BC, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire under Octavian (Augustus).