Resafa

Resafa, sometimes spelled Rusafa, and known in the Byzantine era as Sergiopolis and briefly as Anastasiopolis, was a city located in the Roman province of Euphratensis, in modern-day .
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 293 metres (961 feet)
  • Description: archaeological site in Syria
  • Also known as
    “Anastasiopolis”
    “Ar Ruşāfah”
    “Er Ressâfé”
    “Rasaappa”
    “Rasafah”
    “Rasapi”
    “Raṣappa”
    “Resafah”
    “Resafe”
    “Resapha”
    “Resapha Sergiopolis”
    “Ressâfé”
    “Rezeph”
    “Rişāfah”
    “Risāfe”
    “Ruzaphata”
    “Sergioupolis”
    “Ράφες”

Resafa

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Latitude
35.62898° or 35° 37′ 44″ north
Longitude
38.75806° or 38° 45′ 29″ east
Open location code
8G7WJQH5+H6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 467577267
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
172909
Wiki­data ID
Q631407

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Resafa” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ῥησάφα”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σεργιόπολις”
  • Arabic: “الرصافة”
  • Arabic: “رصافة الرَّقَّة”
  • Arabic: “رصافةُ الشَّام”
  • Arabic: “رصافة هشام”
  • Arabic: “سرجيوبوليس”
  • Arabic: “لؤلؤة بادية الشام”
  • Arabic: “مدينة سرجيوس”
  • Azerbaijani: “Resafa”
  • Bulgarian: “Ресафа”
  • Catalan: “Rusafa al-Sham”
  • Catalan: “Rusafa”
  • Chinese: “雷萨法”
  • Chinese: “雷薩法”
  • Dutch: “Resafa”
  • Dutch: “Sergiopolis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “الرصافه”
  • French: “Resafa”
  • German: “Resafa”
  • Greek: “Αναστασιόπολις”
  • Greek: “Ρεσάφα”
  • Greek: “Ῥησάφα”
  • Greek: “Ρουσάφα”
  • Greek: “Σεργιόπολις”
  • Hebrew: “א-רסאפה”
  • Hebrew: “רצף”
  • Hebrew: “רֶצֶף‎”
  • Hungarian: “Ruszáfa”
  • Indonesian: “Rushafah”
  • Italian: “Resafa”
  • Italian: “Rusafa”
  • Italian: “Sergiopoli”
  • Japanese: “リサーファ”
  • Japanese: “レサーファ”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rasafah”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Resafa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sergiopolis”
  • Norwegian: “Resafa”
  • Persian: “الرصافة”
  • Persian: “الرصافه”
  • Portuguese: “Resafa”
  • Romanian: “Resafa”
  • Russian: “Ресафа”
  • Serbian: “Ресафа”
  • Slovenian: “Rasafa”
  • Slovenian: “Resafa”
  • Spanish: “Resafa”
  • Tajik: “Ресофа”
  • Thai: “อัรริศอฟะฮ์”
  • Turkish: “Rusafe”
  • Ukrainian: “Ресафа”
  • Urdu: “رصافہ”

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