Abydos
Abydos was an ancient city and bishopric in Mysia. It was located at the Nara Burnu promontory on the Asian coast of the Hellespont, opposite the ancient city of Sestos, and near the city of Çanakkale in Turkey.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city of Mysia in modern-day Turkey
- Also known as: “Abydos of Mysia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Karacaören and Eceabat.
Karacaören
Village
Karacaören is a village in the Çanakkale District of Çanakkale Province in Turkey. Its population is 905. Karacaören is situated 4 km southeast of Abydos.
Eceabat
Photo: J budissin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Eceabat is a town on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Eastern Thrace, in the west of Turkey. It stands on the European bank of the Straits of Dardanelles and traditionally was one of the main crossing points: on the Asia side is Çanakkale, the chief city of the area.
Çanakkale
Photo: Грищук ЮН, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Çanakkale is a city in the Southern Marmara region of Turkey. It stands at the outlet of the Dardanelles, the straits between European and Asian Turkey, and has been a travel hub in peace and war since antiquity.
Abydos
- Categories: former settlement, polis, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Canakkale, Çanakkale Province, Turkey, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
40.19406° or 40° 11′ 39″ northLongitude
26.41122° or 26° 24′ 40″ eastElevation
9 metres (30 feet)Open location code
8GG85CV6+JFOpenStreetMap ID
way 183603236OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Turkish—“Abydos” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἄβυδος”
- Arabic: “أبيدو”
- Basque: “Abidos (Asia Txikia)”
- Basque: “Abidos (Grezia)”
- Basque: “Abidos”
- Belarusian: “Абідас (Гелеспонт)”
- Belarusian: “Абідас”
- Bulgarian: “Абидос”
- Catalan: “Abidos de Mísia”
- Catalan: “Abydos”
- Chinese: “阿卑多斯 (赫勒斯滂)”
- Chinese: “阿卑多斯”
- Chinese: “阿彼多斯”
- Czech: “Abydos”
- Czech: “Abýdos”
- Dutch: “Abydos”
- Dutch: “Abydus”
- Esperanto: “Abidos”
- Esperanto: “Abidoso”
- Finnish: “Abydos (Troas)”
- Finnish: “Abydos”
- French: “Abydos”
- Georgian: “აბიდოსი (ჰელესპონტი)”
- Georgian: “აბიდოსი”
- German: “Abydos”
- German: “Abydus”
- Greek: “Άβυδος Μυσίας”
- Greek: “Άβυδος”
- Hebrew: “אבידוס (דרדנלים)”
- Hebrew: “אבידוס (יוון)”
- Hebrew: “אבידוס”
- Hungarian: “Abüdosz (Müszia)”
- Indonesian: “Abydos, Hellespontos”
- Italian: “Abido di Misia”
- Italian: “Abido”
- Italian: “Abydos”
- Japanese: “アビュドス (ヘレスポントス)”
- Kazakh: “Абидос (Геллеспонт)”
- Kazakh: “Абидос”
- Latin: “Abydus (Hellespontus)”
- Latin: “Abydus”
- Lithuanian: “Abidas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abydos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abydos i Mysia”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abydos ved Hellespont”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Abydos”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hellespont Abydos”
- Norwegian: “Abydos”
- Polish: “Abydos (Azja Mniejsza)”
- Polish: “Abydos (kolonia)”
- Polish: “Abydos”
- Portuguese: “Abidos (Ásia Menor)”
- Portuguese: “Abidos (Grécia)”
- Portuguese: “Abidos (Helesponto)”
- Portuguese: “Abidos”
- Romanian: “Abydos, Hellespont”
- Russian: “Абидос (Мизия)”
- Russian: “Абидос, древний город в Мизии”
- Russian: “Абидос”
- Serbian: “Абидос (Анадолија)”
- Serbian: “Абидос(Анадолија)”
- Serbian: “Абидос”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abid (Helespont)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abidos (Anadolija)”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abidos”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abydos (Helespont)”
- Slovak: “Abydos (staroveké Grécko)”
- Slovak: “Abydos”
- Slovenian: “Abidos, Dardanele”
- Spanish: “Abido”
- Spanish: “Abidos (Asia Menor)”
- Swedish: “Abydos, Mindre Asien”
- Tamil: “அபிடோஸ்”
- Turkish: “Abidos (Çanakkale)”
- Turkish: “Abidos”
- Turkish: “Abydus”
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