Oxyrhynchus
Oxyrhynchus, also known by its modern name Al-Bahnasa, is a city in Middle Egypt located about 160 km south-southwest of Cairo in Minya Governorate. It is also an important archaeological site.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: city in Ptolemaic/Roman Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Bahnasā”, “Al-Bahnasa”, “Behnesch”, “Behnessa”, and “Oxyrynchus”
Oxyrhynchus
- Categories: ancient city and archaeological site
- Location: Minya Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Western Frisian—“Oxyrhynchus” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ὀξύρρυγχος”
- Arabic: “أوكسيرينخوس”
- Arabic: “البهنسا”
- Basque: “Oxirrinko”
- Bulgarian: “Оксиринх”
- Catalan: “Behnesa”
- Catalan: “Epigrafia grega d’Oxirrinc”
- Catalan: “Oxirinc”
- Catalan: “Oxirrinc”
- Catalan: “Oxyrhinchos”
- Catalan: “Oxyrhinchus”
- Catalan: “Permedjed”
- Cebuano: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Chinese: “俄克喜林库斯”
- Chinese: “俄克喜林庫斯”
- Chinese: “奧克西林庫斯”
- Czech: “Oxyrhynchos”
- Czech: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Danish: “Oxyrhynchos”
- Danish: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Dutch: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Dutch: “Oxyrynkhos”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوكسيرينخوس”
- Esperanto: “Oksirinĥo”
- Esperanto: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Finnish: “Oksyrhynkhos”
- Finnish: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Finnish: “Oxyrhynkhos”
- French: “Al-Bahnasah”
- French: “El-Behnesèh”
- French: “Ouab Sep-meri”
- French: “Ouâb Sep-meri”
- French: “Ouâb-Sep-meri”
- French: “Oxyrhynchos”
- French: “Oxyrhynque”
- Galician: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Georgian: “ოქსირინჰი”
- Georgian: “ოქსირინჰუსი”
- German: “Oxyrhynchos”
- German: “Oxyrhynchus”
- German: “Oxyrynchos”
- Greek: “Οξύρρυγχος Άνω Αιγύπτου”
- Greek: “Οξύρρυγχος”
- Hausa: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Hebrew: “אוקסירינכוס”
- Indonesian: “Oksirinkos”
- Indonesian: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Italian: “Ossirinco”
- Italian: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Italian: “Oxyrhyncus”
- Italian: “Papiri di Ossirinco”
- Japanese: “オクシュリュンコス”
- Japanese: “オクシリンコス”
- Korean: “옥시륑코스”
- Korean: “옥시링코스”
- Korean: “옥시링쿠스”
- Latvian: “Al Bahnasa”
- Latvian: “Oksirinkhosa”
- Latvian: “Oksirinkhusa”
- Latvian: “Oksirinkusa”
- Latvian: “Oksirrinha”
- Macedonian: “Оксиринх”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Norwegian: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Persian: “اوکسیرینخوس”
- Polish: “Oksyrynchos”
- Polish: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Portuguese: “El-Bahnasa”
- Portuguese: “Oxirrinco”
- Portuguese: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Romanian: “Oxyrhynchos”
- Russian: “Оксиринх”
- Russian: “Оксиринхские тексты”
- Russian: “Пемдже”
- Serbian: “Oksirinhus”
- Serbian: “Оксиринхус”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Oksirinh”
- Slovak: “Oxyrhynchos”
- Spanish: “El Bahnasa”
- Spanish: “El-Bahnasa”
- Spanish: “Oxirrinco”
- Spanish: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Swedish: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Vietnamese: “Oxyrhynchus”
- Western Frisian: “Oksyrrynkus”
- Western Frisian: “Oksyrynchus”
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