Pelusium
Pelusium was an important city in the eastern extremes of Egypt's Nile Delta, 30 km to the southeast of the modern Port Said. It became a Roman provincial capital and Metropolitan archbishopric and remained a multiple Catholic titular see and an Eastern Orthodox active archdiocese.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Description: ancient Egyptian archaeological site
- Also known as: “Ancient Roman City of Pelusium”
Pelusium
- Categories: city, Ancient Egyptian archaeological site, ancient city, and tourism
- Location: Port Said Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.04276° or 31° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
32.54734° or 32° 32′ 50″ eastElevation
8 metres (26 feet)Open location code
8G3J2GVW+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 6069103273OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Pelusium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الفرما”
- Arabic: “تاريخ بورسعيد الفديم”
- Arabic: “تل الفرما”
- Arabic: “فرما”
- Armenian: “Պելուզիում”
- Asturian: “Pelusium”
- Azerbaijani: “Ər-Fərəma”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelusi”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelusium”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelusiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Peluzi”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelyusi”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelyusiya”
- Azerbaijani: “Pelyuzi”
- Azerbaijani: “Per Amon”
- Azerbaijani: “Peremun”
- Azerbaijani: “Senu”
- Azerbaijani: “Seyyan”
- Azerbaijani: “Sin”
- Basque: “Pelusio”
- Belarusian: “Пелузій”
- Belarusian: “Пэлюзіюм”
- Breton: “Pelusium”
- Bulgarian: “Пелузий”
- Catalan: “Pelúsion”
- Cebuano: “Tall al Faramah”
- Chinese: “帕路修斯”
- Chinese: “皮路希姆”
- Chinese: “貝魯西亞”
- Czech: “Pelusion”
- Czech: “Pelusium”
- Danish: “Pelusium”
- Dutch: “Pelousion”
- Dutch: “Pelusium”
- Dutch: “Tell el-Farama”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الفرما”
- Esperanto: “Farama”
- Esperanto: “Pelusion”
- Esperanto: “Pelusium”
- Esperanto: “Tell el-Farama”
- Finnish: “Pelosion”
- Finnish: “Pelousion”
- Finnish: “Pelusion”
- Finnish: “Pelusium”
- French: “Farama”
- French: “Pelousion”
- French: “Peluse”
- French: “Péluse”
- French: “Pelusium”
- French: “Seyân”
- French: “Tell el-Farama”
- Galician: “Pelusio”
- German: “Pelusion”
- German: “Pelusium”
- Greek: “Πηλούσιο”
- Greek: “Πηλούσιον”
- Hebrew: “בלוזה”
- Hebrew: “פלוסיום”
- Hebrew: “פלוסיון”
- Hungarian: “Pelusium”
- Indonesian: “Pelusium”
- Irish: “Pelusium”
- Italian: “Farama”
- Italian: “Pelusio”
- Italian: “Pelusium”
- Japanese: “ペルシウム”
- Japanese: “ペルジウム”
- Latin: “Pelusium”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Farama”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pelusium”
- Norwegian: “Pelusium”
- Persian: “پلوزیوم”
- Polish: “Peluzjum”
- Portuguese: “Al-Farama”
- Portuguese: “Farama”
- Portuguese: “Paramoun”
- Portuguese: “Pelúsio”
- Portuguese: “Pelusium”
- Portuguese: “Tell el-Farama”
- Russian: “Пелузий”
- Russian: “Пелусий”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peluzij”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Peluzijum”
- Slovenian: “Peluzij”
- Spanish: “Pelusio”
- Spanish: “Pelusium”
- Swedish: “Pelusion”
- Swedish: “Pelusium”
- Swedish: “Tell el-Farama”
- Tamil: “பெலுசியம்”
- Thai: “เปลูซิอูง”
- Turkish: “Pelusium”
- Ukrainian: “Пелусій”
- Urdu: “الفرما”
- Urdu: “پیلوزیوم”
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