Euhemeria was an Egyptian port village located on the south bank of Lake Moeris in the Faiyum region of Ptolemaic Egypt. During the 1st century BC, the Nomarch Berenike presided over a discriminatory Greek regime; under Berenike, Egyptian farmers were taxed more than Greeks, Egyptian farms passed into Greek control after the deaths of their owners, and the native Egyptian population was driven into slums. By 48 BC, Berenike had also set up the Okteres Blockade to remind the town of the power of Pharaoh Ptolemy XIII.