Proper noun
Naucratis
A city in Ancient Egypt, the only permanent Greek colony there.
Phylarchus of Naucratis, "The Deipnosophists, or, Banquet of the Learned of Athenæus", Translated from Ancient Greek by H.Bohn 12:20, p.835 the first statutory patent system is generally regarded to be the Venetian Patent Statute of 1450. Source: Internet