Tinnis
Tennis or Tinnīs was a medieval city in Egypt which no longer exists. It was most prosperous from the 9th century to the 11th century until its abandonment. It was located at 31°12′N 32°14′E, on an island in Lake Manzala, southwest of Port Said.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Ruin
- Description: medieval city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Tennis”, “Tennîs”, and “Tinnīs”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Port Fuad and Port Said.
Port Fuad
Town
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Port Fuad or Port Fouad is a city in Port Said Governorate, Egypt. Port Fuad is located in northeastern Egypt at the northwesternmost tip of the Sinai Peninsula on the Asian side of the Suez Canal, across from the city of Port Said. Port Fuad is situated 10 km northeast of Tinnis.
Port Said
Photo: Mohamed kamal 1984, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Port Said is Egypt's third largest city, its second largest seaport and the entry point of the Suez Canal by the Mediterranean.
Al Gamil Fort
Locality
Port Said Airport serves the city of Port Said, Egypt, at the north end of the Suez Canal. In 2011, the airport served 36,962 passengers. Al Gamil Fort is situated 10 km north of Tinnis.
Tinnis
- Categories: former settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Sharqia Province, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Tinnis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تنيس”
- Arabic: “جزيرة تنيس”
- Catalan: “Tinnís”
- Chinese: “Tennis”
- Chinese: “塔尼斯”
- Chinese: “田尼斯”
- Dutch: “Tennis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تنيس”
- Esperanto: “Tinnis”
- Finnish: “Tennis”
- Finnish: “Tinnis”
- French: “Tinnis”
- Indonesian: “Tinnis”
- Italian: “Tinnis”
- Japanese: “ティニス”
- Japanese: “ティンニース”
- Persian: “تنیس، مصر”
- Polish: “Tinnis”
- Portuguese: “Ténis”
- Portuguese: “Tennis”
- Portuguese: “Tinnis”
- Russian: “Тиннис”
- South Azerbaijani: “تنیس، میصر”
- Yue Chinese: “庭尼斯”
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Nearby Places
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