Ancient Toponym of the Week: Krokodilopolis

Known to its inhabitants as Shedet, this settlement was known to Herodotus and other Greeks as Κροκοδείλων πόλις, the "City of Crocodiles" [1]. According Smith (via Wikipedia), Krokodilopolis was a center for the cult of Sobek. The Greek practice of naming foreign cities after a totemic animal also produced toponyms such as Kynopolis (dog), Latopolis (fish), and Lykopolis (jackal).