North Africa
Egypt
Sharqia Province

Tanis

Tanis or San al-Hagar is the Greek name for ancient Egyptian ḏꜥn.t, an important archaeological site in the northeastern of Egypt, and the location of a city of the same name.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: village and ancient city in Sharqia Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Şān al Ḩajar”, “Ṣān al Ḥajar”, “San al Hajar al Qibliyah”, “Şān al Ḩajar al Qiblīyah”, “Ṣān al-Ḥajar al-Qibliyyah”, “Ṣân el-Ḥagar”, and “Ṣân el-Ḥagar el-Qiblîya”

Tanis

Latitude
30.9725° or 30° 58′ 21″ north
Longitude
31.88347° or 31° 53′ 1″ east
Population
31,000
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
8G2HXVFM+29
Open­Street­Map ID
way 188053938
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
349653
Wiki­data ID
Q210598
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Tanis” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tanis”
  • Amharic: “ጣኔዎስ”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τάνις”
  • Arabic: “تانيس”
  • Arabic: “صان الحجر البحرية، الشرقية”
  • Arabic: “صان الحجر القبلية، الشرقية”
  • Arabic: “صان الحجر القبلية”
  • Basque: “Tanis”
  • Bulgarian: “Танис”
  • Catalan: “Djanet”
  • Catalan: “Per-Uadjet”
  • Catalan: “San al-Hagar”
  • Catalan: “Tanis”
  • Cebuano: “Tanis”
  • Chinese: “坦尼斯”
  • Chinese: “塔尼斯”
  • Chinese: “桑埃尔黑加”
  • Croatian: “Tanis”
  • Czech: “Džanet”
  • Dutch: “Tanis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تانيس”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صان الحجر”
  • Esperanto: “Taniso”
  • Finnish: “Tanis”
  • French: “Tanis”
  • French: “village en gouvernorat de Ach-Charqiya, Égypte”
  • Galician: “Tanis”
  • Georgian: “ტანისი”
  • German: “San al-Hagar al-Qibliyya”
  • German: “San el-Hagar el-Qibliya”
  • German: “Ṣān el-Ḥagar el-Qiblīya”
  • German: “Tanis”
  • Greek: “Τάνις”
  • Hebrew: “דג’אנט”
  • Hebrew: “דג’נט”
  • Hebrew: “טאניס”
  • Hebrew: “צען”
  • Hungarian: “Tanisz”
  • Indonesian: “Tanis”
  • Irish: “Tanis”
  • Italian: “Djanet”
  • Italian: “Tani”
  • Italian: “Tanis”
  • Japanese: “タニス”
  • Korean: “타니스”
  • Latin: “Tanis”
  • Lithuanian: “Tanis”
  • Malayalam: “Tanis”
  • Malayalam: “ടാനിസ്”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanis”
  • Norwegian: “Tanis”
  • Persian: “تانیس”
  • Polish: “Tanis”
  • Portuguese: “Tânis”
  • Romanian: “Tanis”
  • Russian: “Джа­нет”
  • Russian: “Сан-эль-Ха­гар”
  • Russian: “Танес”
  • Russian: “Танис”
  • Russian: “Цоан”
  • Serbian: “Tanis”
  • Serbian: “Танис”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Tanis”
  • Slovak: “Džanet”
  • Slovak: “Tanis”
  • Slovenian: “Tanis”
  • Spanish: “Tanis”
  • Swedish: “San el Hagar”
  • Swedish: “San el-Hagar”
  • Swedish: “Tanis”
  • Tamil: “தனீஸ்”
  • Thai: “แทนิส”
  • Turkish: “Tanis”
  • Ukrainian: “Таніс”
  • Urdu: “تانیس”
  • Vietnamese: “Tanis”

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