Thebes

Thebes, known to the ancient Egyptians as Waset, was an ancient Egyptian city located along the Nile about 800 kilometers south of the Mediterranean. Its ruins lie within the modern city of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Egyptian city
  • Also known as: “Ancient Thebes with its Necropolis”, “Antigua Tebas y su necrópolis”, “Antikes Theben mit seiner Nekropole”, “Diospolis Magna”, “Neyout”, “Niwt”, “Nô-Amom”, “Ouaset”, “Pe-Amun”, “Sajaväravane Teeba”, “T’Ape”, “Tebe d’Egitto”, “Teboj”, “Teebe”, “Thebais”, “Thebaïs”, “Thebe i Egypten”, “Thèbes antique et sa nécropole”, “Thèbes d’Égypte”, “Thebes, Egypt”, “Théby”, “Uaset”, “Vaset”, “Véset”, “Veseto”, “Weset”, “Wéset”, “Wêset”, “Θήβαι”, “Θήβες”, “Νιούτ”, “Ουασέτ”, “Васет”, “Некрополь Фив”, “Уасет”, “Фивы Египетские”, “Фивы, город в Египте”, “Фивы, Египет | Но | Но-Амон”, “Фівы (Егіпет)”, “شهر تب”, “نيوت”, “தீப்ஸ்”, “古代都市テーベとその墓地遺跡”, and “拉美西乌姆”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Temple of Akhmenu and Botanical Gardens of Thutmose III.

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The Festival Hall of Thutmose III is an ancient shrine in , . is situated 3 km northwest of Thebes.

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The Botanical Garden of Thutmosis III is an Ancient… is situated 3 km northwest of Thebes.

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The Precinct of Montu, located near , … is situated 3 km northwest of Thebes.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include East Bank and Luxor.

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The of is the central part of Luxor…

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is a city in .

Village
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is a village, which is situated 7 km northwest of Thebes.

Thebes

Latitude
25.7° or 25° 42′ north
Longitude
32.68333° or 32° 41′ east
Elevation
79 metres (259 feet)
Open location code
7GQJPM2M+28
Geo­Names ID
347342
Wiki­data ID
Q101583
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Thebes” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Thebe, Egipte”
  • Afrikaans: “Thebe”
  • Albanian: “Teba”
  • Amharic: “ጤቤስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Diospolis”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Thēbai”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διοσπολις”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θηβαι”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Θῆβαι”
  • Arabic: “طيبة”
  • Armenian: “Թեբե”
  • Asturian: “Tebes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Teben”
  • Basque: “Tebas”
  • Belarusian: “Горад Фівы”
  • Belarusian: “Тэбы”
  • Belarusian: “Фівы”
  • Bengali: “থিবস, মিশর”
  • Bosnian: “Teba”
  • Breton: “Teba”
  • Breton: “Thebai”
  • Bulgarian: “Тива”
  • Burmese: “သီးဘီးစ်မြို့ ၊ အီဂျစ်နိုင်ငံ”
  • Catalan: “Tebes”
  • Cebuano: “Thebes”
  • Chinese: “底比斯”
  • Croatian: “Teba”
  • Czech: “Veset”
  • Danish: “Theben”
  • Dutch: “Thebe”
  • Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt-imn”
  • Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt-rst”
  • Egyptian (Ancient): “niwt”
  • Egyptian (Ancient): “Waset”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “طيبه”
  • Esperanto: “Tebo”
  • Estonian: “Teeba”
  • Finnish: “Theba”
  • French: “Thèbes”
  • Galician: “Tebas, Exipto”
  • Galician: “Tebas”
  • Georgian: “თებე”
  • German: “Theben”
  • Greek: “Θήβαι Αιγύπτου”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Tí-pí-sṳ̂”
  • Hausa: “Thebes, Egypt”
  • Hebrew: “nōˀ ˀāmôn”
  • Hebrew: “נא אמון”
  • Hebrew: “תבאי”
  • Hindi: “थेबे”
  • Hindi: “प्राचीन थेब्स”
  • Hungarian: “Théba”
  • Icelandic: “Þeba”
  • Indonesian: “Thebes, Mesir”
  • Indonesian: “Thebes”
  • Irish: “An Téibh”
  • Italian: “Tebe”
  • Japanese: “テーベ”
  • Kazakh: “Fïvı”
  • Kazakh: “Фивы”
  • Kazakh: “فىيۆى”
  • Korean: “테베”
  • Kurdish: “Têbes”
  • Latin: “Thebae”
  • Latvian: “Tēbas”
  • Lithuanian: “Tėbai”
  • Low German: “Theben”
  • Macedonian: “Теба”
  • Maithili: “थेबेस, इजिप्ट”
  • Malagasy: “Tebay (Ejipta)”
  • Malagasy: “Tebay”
  • Malay: “Thebes, Mesir”
  • Malay: “Thebes”
  • Malayalam: “തീബ്സ്”
  • Maltese: “Tebe (Eġittu)”
  • Maltese: “Tebe”
  • Nepali: “थेबेस, इजिप्ट”
  • Nepali: “थेबेस”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Theben”
  • Norwegian: “Teben”
  • Norwegian: “Theben”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Oaset”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tèbas”
  • Persian: “تبای”
  • Persian: “تبس”
  • Persian: “طیبه”
  • Polish: “Teby”
  • Portuguese: “Tebas”
  • Romanian: “Teba, Egipt”
  • Romanian: “Teba”
  • Russian: “Фивы”
  • Serbian: “Teba”
  • Serbian: “Теба”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Teba”
  • Slovak: “Téby”
  • Slovenian: “Tebe, Egipt”
  • Slovenian: “Tebe”
  • Spanish: “Tebas Hecatómpila”
  • Spanish: “Tebas”
  • Swahili: “Thebes”
  • Swedish: “Thebe”
  • Tagalog: “Thebes”
  • Tamil: “தீபை”
  • Tatar: “Фивлар борынгы каласы”
  • Thai: “ทีบส์”
  • Thai: “ธีบส์”
  • Turkish: “Teb”
  • Ukrainian: “Фіви”
  • Urdu: “طيبہ”
  • Urdu: “طیبہ، مصر”
  • Uzbek: “Fiva”
  • Vietnamese: “Thebes, Ai Cập”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thebes, Ehipto”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Thebes”
  • Welsh: “Thebes, Yr Aifft”
  • Welsh: “Thebes”
  • Wu Chinese: “底比斯 (埃及)”
  • Wu Chinese: “底比斯（埃及）”
  • Yue Chinese: “底比斯 (埃及)”
  • Yue Chinese: “底比斯”
  • “Tebas”

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