Faras
Faras was a major city in Lower Nubia. The site of the city, on the border between modern Egypt and Sudan at Wadi Halfa Salient, was flooded by Lake Nasser in the 1960s and is now permanently underwater.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Landing
- Description: archaeological site in Sudan (Nubia)
- Also known as: “Maḩaţţat Faras”
Faras
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, and transportation
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Faras” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فرس (النوبة)”
- Arabic: “فرس”
- Catalan: “Faras”
- Czech: “Faras”
- Dutch: “Faras”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فرس (النوبه)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فرس”
- Finnish: “Faras”
- French: “Faras”
- Georgian: “ფარასი”
- German: “Faras”
- Greek: “Φάρας”
- Hungarian: “Farasz”
- Irish: “Faras”
- Italian: “Faras”
- Japanese: “ファラス”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Faras”
- Polish: “Faras”
- Romanian: “Faras”
- Russian: “Фарас”
- Slovenian: “Faras”
- Spanish: “Faras”
- Swahili: “Faras”
- Ukrainian: “Фарас”
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