Tebtunis
Tebtunis was a city and later town in Lower Egypt. The settlement was founded in approximately 1800 BCE by the Twelfth Dynasty king Amenemhat III. It was located at what is now Tell Umm el-Baragat in the Faiyum Governorate.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tebtunis
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Faiyum
- Categories: human settlement, Egyptian temple, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Faiyum Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.10721° or 29° 6′ 26″ northLongitude
30.76126° or 30° 45′ 41″ eastElevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
7GXG4Q46+VGOpenStreetMap ID
node 2705032924OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Tebtunis” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم البريجات”
- Bulgarian: “Тебтунис”
- Catalan: “Tebtunis”
- Catalan: “Tell Umm al-Breigat”
- Cebuano: “Tebtunis”
- Chinese: “泰卜圖尼斯”
- Dutch: “Tebtunis”
- Dutch: “Tebtynis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ام البريجات”
- Finnish: “Tebtynis”
- French: “Tebtynis”
- German: “Qasr el-Bas”
- German: “Soknebtynis”
- German: “Tebtunis”
- German: “Tebtynis”
- German: “Tell Umm el-Baragat”
- German: “Umm el-Brigat”
- German: “Umm el-Bureigāt”
- German: “Umm el-Burigat”
- Irish: “Tebtunis”
- Italian: “Tebtynis”
- Polish: “Tebtunis”
- Polish: “Tebtynis”
- Spanish: “Tebtunis”
- Spanish: “Tebtynis”
- Spanish: “Tepten”
- Spanish: “Theodosiopolis”
- Spanish: “Umm el-Bureigat”
- Swedish: “Tebtunis”
- Turkish: “Tebtynis”
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