Lixus
Lixus is an ancient city founded by Phoenicians before the city of Carthage. Its distinguishing feature is that it was continuously occupied from antiquity to the Islamic Era, and has ruins dating to the Phoenician, Punic, Mauretanian, Roman and Islamic periods.Photo: massalim, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Morocco
- Also known as: “Cite Archeologique Lixus”, “Ruinas de Lichus”, “Ruinas de Lixus”, “Ruine Romaine de Lixus”, “Ruines de Lixus”, and “Txus”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Amphitheater of Lixus.
Amphitheater of Lixus
Ruins
Photo: Carole Raddato, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Amphitheatre of Lixus was a Roman amphitheater located in Lixus, a city north of the modern seaport of Larache in Morocco. The amphitheater, much like Lixus itself, is largely in ruins. Amphitheater of Lixus is situated 210 metres east of Lixus.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Larache and Khemis Sahel.
Larache
Photo: Dans, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Larache is a city in northwestern Morocco. It is on the Moroccan coast, where the Loukkos River meets the Atlantic Ocean. Larache is one of the most important cities of the Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima region.
Khemis Sahel
Village
Khemis Sahel is a town in Larache Province, Tanger-Tetouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco. According to the 2004 census it has a population of 4,826. Khemis Sahel is situated 7 km northeast of Lixus.
Lixus
- Categories: Carthaginian archaeological site, ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Larache Province, Tangier-Tétouan-Al Hoceima, Morocco, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Lixus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ليكسوس”
- Armenian: “Լիկսուս”
- Armenian: “Լիքսուս”
- Asturian: “Lixus”
- Bulgarian: “Ликсус”
- Catalan: “Lixus”
- Chinese: “利克薩斯古城”
- Dutch: “Lixus (Romeinse ruines)”
- Dutch: “Lixus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ليكسوس”
- French: “Cité Archéologique Lixus”
- French: “Lixus”
- Galician: “Lixus”
- German: “Lixus”
- Hausa: “Lixus (birni na dā)”
- Hausa: “Lixus”
- Hebrew: “ליקסוס”
- Hungarian: “Lixus”
- Italian: “Lixus”
- Japanese: “リクサス”
- Kurdish: “Lîksûs”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ليكسوس”
- Persian: “لیکسوس”
- Polish: “Liksus”
- Portuguese: “Cidade de Xamez”
- Portuguese: “Lixo”
- Portuguese: “Xamez”
- Russian: “Ликсус”
- Slovenian: “Lixus”
- Spanish: “Lixus”
- Swedish: “Lixus”
- Turkish: “Lixus”
- Ukrainian: “Лікс”
- Urdu: “لیکسوس (قدیم شہر)”
- Urdu: “لیکسوس”
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