Tell el-Balamun
Tell el-Balamun first known as Smabehdet, is an ancient city in Egypt dating from 2400 BC. It was once a port city on an estuary of the Nile, but is now inland of the Mediterranean Sea.- Type: Hill
- Description: village in Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Diospolis Parva”, “El-Koln el-Aḥmar”, “Sema-behdet”, “Tall al Balamun”, “Tall al Balāmūn”, and “Tell el-Balâmûn”
Tell el-Balamun
- Categories: human settlement, ancient city, locality, village in Egypt, and landform
- Location: Dakahlia Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.26205° or 31° 15′ 43″ north
Longitude
31.57403° or 31° 34′ 27″ east
Elevation
5 metres (16 feet)
Open location code
8G3H7H6F+RJ
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Urdu—“Tell el-Balamun” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διόσπολις Κάτω”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διόσπολις Μικρά”
- Arabic: “البلامون، الدقهلية”
- Arabic: “البلامون”
- Arabic: “بلامون”
- Arabic: “تل البلامون”
- Arabic: “قرية البلامون”
- Catalan: “Al-Balamun”
- Catalan: “Diòspolis Inferior”
- Catalan: “El-Balamun”
- Dutch: “Tell el-Balamun”
- Egyptian Arabic: “البلامون”
- Finnish: “Diospolis Katō”
- Finnish: “Diospolis Mikra”
- Finnish: “Pa-iu-en-Amon”
- Finnish: “Waset-mehet”
- French: “Tell el-Balamoun”
- German: “Tell el-Balamun”
- Italian: “Diospolis Inferior”
- Italian: “Paiuenamon”
- Italian: “Sma-Behdet”
- Italian: “Tell Balamun”
- Italian: “Tell el-Balamun”
- Persian: “البلامون”
- South Azerbaijani: “البلامون”
- Spanish: “Al-Balamun”
- Spanish: “Behdet”
- Spanish: “Diospolis Inferior”
- Spanish: “Paiuenamon”
- Spanish: “Smabehdet”
- Spanish: “Tell el-Balamun”
- Urdu: “تل البلامون”
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