Foro
Foro is a town in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Adulis.
Adulis
Archaeological site
Photo: PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Adulis was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about 40 kilometers south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula. Adulis is situated 4 km east of Foro.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zula.
Zula
Town
Zula is a small town in central Eritrea. It is situated near the head of Annesley Bay, on the Red Sea coast. Four kilometers away is the archeological site of Adulis, which was an emporium and the port of Axum. Zula is situated 6 km east of Foro.
Foro
- Type: Town
- Description: city in Eritrea
- Categories: human settlement and locality
- Location: Foro subregion, Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
15.26303° or 15° 15′ 47″ northLongitude
39.62239° or 39° 37′ 21″ eastElevation
67 metres (220 feet)Open location code
7G7X7J7C+6XOpenStreetMap ID
node 4266181449OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Foro” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Foro”
- Arabic: “فورو”
- Aragonese: “Foro”
- Arpitan: “Foro”
- Asturian: “Foru”
- Basque: “Foro”
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- Corsican: “Foro”
- Croatian: “Foro”
- Czech: “Foro”
- Danish: “Foro”
- Dutch: “Foro”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورو”
- Esperanto: “Foro”
- Estonian: “Foro”
- Finnish: “Foro”
- French: “Foro”
- Friulian: “Foro”
- Galician: “Foro”
- German: “Foro”
- Hungarian: “Foro”
- Icelandic: “Foro”
- Ido: “Foro”
- Indonesian: “Foro”
- Interlingua: “Foro”
- Interlingue: “Foro”
- Irish: “Foro”
- Italian: “Foro”
- Japanese: “フォロ”
- Kongo: “Foro”
- Ligurian: “Foro”
- Limburgan: “Foro”
- Low German: “Foro”
- Luxembourgish: “Foro”
- Malagasy: “Foro”
- Malay: “Foro”
- Minangkabau: “Foro”
- Narom: “Foro”
- Neapolitan: “Foro”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Foro”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Foro”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Foro”
- Picard: “Foro”
- Piemontese: “Foro”
- Polish: “Foro”
- Portuguese: “Foro (Eritreia)”
- Portuguese: “Foro”
- Romanian: “Foro”
- Romansh: “Foro”
- Russian: “Форо”
- Sardinian: “Foro”
- Scots: “Foro”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Foro”
- Serbian: “Foro”
- Sicilian: “Foro”
- Slovak: “Foro”
- Slovenian: “Foro”
- Spanish: “Foro (Eritrea)”
- Spanish: “Foro”
- Swahili: “Foro”
- Swedish: “Foro”
- Swiss German: “Foro”
- Venetian: “Foro”
- Vietnamese: “Foro”
- Vlaams: “Foro”
- Volapük: “Foro”
- Walloon: “Foro”
- Welsh: “Foro”
- Wolof: “Foro”
- Zulu: “Foro”
Places with the Same Name
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as ፎሮ - ባረሮሔ ዶዳ/ Foro - Barrohē Dodā (old settlement) / بأرّوحَ دُدَ - فورو and Zula.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Zone de fouille de Francis Anfray (1961-1962) and Église du Nord.
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