North Africa
Egypt
Faiyum Governorate

Karanis

Karanis, located in what is now Kom Aushim, was an agricultural town in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt located in the northeast corner of the . It was roughly 60 hectares in size and its peak population is estimated to be 4000 people, although it could have been as much as three times greater.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in the Egyptian depression of el-Faiyum
  • Also known as: “Kawm Awshim”, “Kawm Awshīm”, “Kōm Aushīm”, “Kom Ouscim”, and “Qaranis”
  • Historically known as: “Καρανίς”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tamiya.

Village
is a town in , . The name of the town comes from Ancient Greek: Ταμαυις or Ταμαις. is situated 7 km southeast of Karanis.

Karanis

Latitude
29.51838° or 29° 31′ 6″ north
Longitude
30.90254° or 30° 54′ 9″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Open location code
7GXGGW93+92
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1280935001
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
353851
Wiki­data ID
Q657455
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swahili—“Karanis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كارنيس”
  • Arabic: “كوم أوشيم”
  • Catalan: “Karanis”
  • Catalan: “Kom Aushim”
  • Catalan: “Kom Ushin”
  • Chinese: “卡拉尼斯”
  • Dutch: “Karanis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كوم اوشيم”
  • French: “Karanis”
  • German: “Karanis”
  • German: “Kom Auschim”
  • German: “Kōm Auschīm”
  • Indonesian: “Karanis”
  • Irish: “Karanis”
  • Italian: “Karanis”
  • Persian: “کارانیس”
  • Spanish: “Karanis”
  • Swahili: “Karanis”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Karanis”. Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.