North Africa
Egypt
Gharbia Governorate

Sais

Sais was an ancient Egyptian city in the Western on the branch of the Nile, known by the ancient Egyptians as Sꜣw. It was the provincial capital of Sap-Meh, the fifth nome of 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.
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  • 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

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
node 768566451
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
349983
Wiki­data ID
Q381038
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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”
  • Georgian: “საისი”
  • German: “Sa al-Hagar”
  • German: “Ṣā el-Ḥagar”
  • German: “Sais”
  • German: “Saïs”
  • German: “San al Hagar”
  • Greek: “Σάις”
  • 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”
  • 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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