Faras
Faras, formerly Pachoras or Pakhoras 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.- Type: Landing
- Description: archaeological site in Sudan (Nubia)
- Also known as: “Maḩaţţat Faras”
Faras
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, and transport
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
22.2° or 22° 12′ north
Longitude
31.46667° or 31° 28′ east
Elevation
179 metres (587 feet)
Open location code
7GJH6F28+2M
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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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