CLEOPATRA was queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt from 51 to 30 BC, and its last active ruler.A member of the Ptolemaic dynasty, she was a descendant of its founder Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general and companion of Alexander the Great. After the death of Cleopatra, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire, marking the end of the second to last Hellenistic state and the age that had lasted since the reign of Alexander (336–323 BC).Her native language was Koine Greek, and she was the only Ptolemaic ruler to learn the Egyptian language

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