Sais
Sais was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western Nile Delta on the Canopic branch of the Nile, It was the provincial capital of Sap-Meh, the fifth nome of Lower Egypt and became the seat of power during the Twenty-fourth Dynasty of Egypt and the Saite Twenty-sixth Dynasty of Egypt during the Late Period.- Type: Village with 20,600 residents
- Description: village in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Sa al Hajar”, “Şā al Ḩajar”, “Ṣa el-Ḥagar”, “Saïs”, “Sais, Egypt”, “San al Hagar”, “Ṣân el-Ḥagar”, and “Ṣân el-Ḥagar, San al Hagar”
Sais
- Categories: emporium, archaeological site, village in Egypt, and locality
- Location: Gharbia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
30.96472° or 30° 57′ 53″ north
Longitude
30.76667° or 30° 46′ east
Population
20,600
Elevation
10 metres (33 feet)
Open location code
8G2GXQ78+VM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Vietnamese—“Sais” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Saïs”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Σάϊς”
- Arabic: “صا الحجر”
- Arabic: “صاالحجر”
- Arabic: “صان الحجر”
- Basque: “Sais”
- Belarusian: “Саіс”
- Bulgarian: “Саис”
- Catalan: “Sa al Hagar”
- Catalan: “Sa al-Hagar”
- Catalan: “Sa el-Hagar”
- Catalan: “Sais”
- Catalan: “Zau”
- Chinese: “塞易斯”
- Chinese: “舍易斯”
- Chinese: “賽伊斯”
- Czech: “Sais”
- Czech: “Saje”
- Czech: “Sau”
- Dutch: “Sais”
- Dutch: “Saïs”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سايس”
- Egyptian Arabic: “صا الحجر”
- Esperanto: “Sais”
- Finnish: “Sais”
- French: “Sà el-Hagar”
- French: “Sais”
- French: “Saïs”
- French: “San al Hagar”
- French: “Saou”
- Galician: “Sais”
- Georgian: “საისი”
- German: “Sa al-Hagar”
- German: “Ṣā el-Ḥagar”
- German: “Sais”
- German: “Saïs”
- German: “San al Hagar”
- Greek: “Σάις”
- Hausa: “Said, Egypt”
- Hebrew: “סאיס”
- Hungarian: “Szaisz”
- Indonesian: “Sais”
- Italian: “Sais”
- Japanese: “サイス”
- Korean: “사이스”
- Latin: “Sais”
- Lithuanian: “Saisas”
- Macedonian: “Саис”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sais”
- Norwegian: “Sais”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sais”
- Persian: “سائیس”
- Polish: “Sais”
- Portuguese: “Sa el-Hagar”
- Portuguese: “Sais”
- Portuguese: “Saís”
- Romanian: “Sais, Egipt”
- Romanian: “Sais”
- Russian: “Саис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sais”
- Sinhala: “සයිස්, ඊජිප්තුව”
- Slovak: “Sais”
- Slovak: “Saj”
- Slovenian: “Sais”
- South Azerbaijani: “سائیس”
- Spanish: “Sais”
- Swahili: “Sais, Egypt”
- Swahili: “Sais, Misri”
- Swedish: “Sa el Hagar”
- Swedish: “Sa el-Hagar”
- Swedish: “Sais”
- Tagalog: “Sais, Ehipto”
- Tagalog: “Sais”
- Tamil: “சைஸ்”
- Thai: “ซาอิส”
- Ukrainian: “Саїс”
- Urdu: “صا الحجر”
- Vietnamese: “Sais, Ai Cập”
- Vietnamese: “Sais”
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