Menas
Menas, a men's personal name, could refer to any of the following historical persons :
- Eurasia
- Patriarch Mennas of Constantinople (526-552), alias Mennas, Minas or Mina, a Catholic and Orthodox saint
- Menas (admiral), a Roman admiral who served under Sextus Pompeius
- One of the seventeen representatives for Sparta to swear an oath for the Peace of Nicias
- Africa
- Pharaoh Menes or Menas, an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the early dynastic period
- Menas of Ethiopia, Emperor of Ethiopia (1559–1563)
- Saint Menas (285 – c. 309), Egyptian saint, and one of the most famous Christian saints, speculated to be the same person known as Saint Christopher
- Minas of Aksum in Ethiopia (6th century)
Other
- A pirate in William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, based on the historical admiral
- Menas, Niger national football team nickname
- Menas is a tribe of India, popularly known as Meenas.
See also
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- All pages with titles beginning with Menas
- All pages with titles containing Menas
- Mena (disambiguation)
- Menes (disambiguation)
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