Buto
Buto, Bouto, Butus or Butosus was a city that the Ancient Egyptians called Per-Wadjet. It was located 95 km east of Alexandria in the Nile Delta of Egypt.Photo: Faris knight, CC0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Egypt
- Also known as: “Butu” and “Buţū”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sidi Salem.
Sidi Salem
Town
Photo: Faris knight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sidi Salem is a city in the Kafr El Sheikh Governorate, Egypt. The medieval Arabic and Coptic scholars identified the city with ancient Phragonis, although the archeological findings point out to Kom al-Khawaled 7 kilometers east of Sidi Salem. Sidi Salem is situated 9 km northeast of Buto.
Buto
- Categories: tell, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Kafr el-Sheikh Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.1964° or 31° 11′ 47″ northLongitude
30.74449° or 30° 44′ 40″ eastElevation
2 metres (7 feet)Open location code
8G3G5PWV+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 5062456966OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Buto” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βοῦτος”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βουτώ”
- Arabic: “بِ دِب”
- Arabic: “بوتو”
- Arabic: “بوتوس”
- Arabic: “مدينة بوتو”
- Basque: “Buto”
- Bulgarian: “Буто”
- Catalan: “Buto”
- Cebuano: “Buto”
- Chinese: “布陀”
- Czech: “Bútó”
- Dutch: “Boeto”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بوتو”
- Finnish: “Buto (kaupunki)”
- Finnish: “Buto”
- French: “Bouto”
- German: “Buto”
- German: “Tell el-Fara’in”
- German: “Tell el-Farāʿīn”
- Greek: “Βουτώ”
- Hebrew: “בוטו (מצרים)”
- Hungarian: “Buto”
- Hungarian: “Per Uadzset”
- Italian: “Buto”
- Japanese: “ブト”
- Lithuanian: “Buto”
- Persian: “بوتو (شهر)”
- Persian: “بوتو”
- Polish: “Buto”
- Portuguese: “Buto”
- Russian: “Буто”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buto”
- Slovak: “Boutó”
- Slovak: “Pervadžet”
- Slovenian: “Buto”
- Spanish: “Buto”
- Swahili: “Buto”
- Swedish: “Buto”
- Ukrainian: “Буто”
- Urdu: “بوتو”
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