North Africa
Egypt
Matruh Governorate

Abusir

Abusir is a seaside town on the shore of on the western extremity of Egypt's . It is situated about 48 kilometres southwest of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: village in Alexandria Governorate, Egypt
  • Also known as: “Pharos of Abusir” and “Taposiris Magna/Abusir, Baths, Greek Bath”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Taposiris Magna.

Locality
Photo: Koantao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as Tapusir Magna, is a city established by Pharaoh Ptolemy II Philadelphus between 280 and 270 BC. The name means "great tomb of Osiris", which Plutarch identifies with an Egyptian temple in the city.

Abusir

Latitude
30.94796° or 30° 56′ 53″ north
Longitude
29.52356° or 29° 31′ 25″ east
Elevation
30 metres (98 feet)
Open location code
8G2FWGXF+5C
Open­Street­Map ID
way 255811087
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
9781955
Wiki­data ID
Q1568438
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Abusir” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أبو صير، الإسكندرية”
  • Arabic: “أبو صير”
  • Catalan: “Plinthine”
  • Catalan: “Taposiris Magna”
  • Cebuano: “Taposiris Magna/Abusir”
  • Chinese: “阿布西尔”
  • Chinese: “阿布西爾”
  • Dutch: “Abusir”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابو صير (مصر)”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ابو صير”
  • French: “Abousir”
  • German: “Abousir”
  • German: “Abū Ṣīr, Taposiris magna”
  • German: “Abu Sir”
  • German: “Abū Şīr”
  • German: “Abū Ṣīr”
  • German: “Abusir”
  • German: “Taposiris magna”
  • Greek: “Αμπουσίρ”
  • Indonesian: “Abusir”
  • Italian: “Abousir”
  • Italian: “Abusir”
  • Italian: “Taposiris Magna”
  • Persian: “ابوصیر (دریاچه مریوط)”
  • Persian: “ابوصیر”
  • Spanish: “Abusir”
  • Swedish: “Taposiris Magna/Abusir”
  • Urdu: “ابو صیر”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Abusir”. Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.