Pelusium

Pelusium was an important city in the eastern extremes of 's , 30 km to the southeast of the modern . It became a Roman provincial capital and Metropolitan archbishopric and remained a multiple Catholic titular see and an Eastern Orthodox active archdiocese.
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Latitude
31.04276° or 31° 2′ 34″ north
Longitude
32.54734° or 32° 32′ 50″ east
Open location code
8G3J2GVW+4W
Open­Street­Map ID
node 6069103273
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
350867
Wiki­data ID
Q1145715

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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: “Péluse”
  • French: “Pelusium”
  • French: “Seyân”
  • French: “Tell el-Farama”
  • Galician: “Pelusio”
  • German: “Pelusion”
  • German: “Pelusium”
  • Greek: “Πηλούσιο”
  • Greek: “Πηλούσιον”
  • Hausa: “Pelusium”
  • Hebrew: “בלוזה”
  • Hebrew: “פלוסיום”
  • Hebrew: “פלוסיון”
  • Hungarian: “Pelusium”
  • Indonesian: “Pelusium”
  • Irish: “Pelusium”
  • Italian: “Farama”
  • Italian: “Pelusio”
  • Italian: “Pelusium”
  • 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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