He gave her name to a number of cities, and also to a district (nome) of Egypt.'
Each nome had its metropolis, normally the seat of a governor or nomarch and the centre of its religious observances.
The district formed part of the nome (administrative division) of Boeotia and Attica until 1899, when it became a separate nome.
Anubis was the principal god in the capitals of the XVIIth and XVIIIth nomes of Upper Egypt, and secondary god in the XIIIth and probably in the XIIth nome; but his cult was universal.
Here was the ancienfcity'of Tentyra, capital of the Tentyrite nome, the sixth of Upper Egypt, and the principal seat of the worship of Hathor [[[Aphrodite]]] the cow-goddess of love and joy.