Tanais
Tanais was an ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, called the Maeotian marshes in classical antiquity. It was a bishopric as Tana and remains a Latin Catholic titular see as Tanais.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places in the Area
Nearby places include Nedvigovka and Sinyavskoye.
Sinyavskoye
Village
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC0.
Sinyavskoye is a village, which is situated 3½ km west of Tanais.
Hapry
Village
Photo: Alexander Roumega, CC0.
Hapry or Khapry is a hamlet in Myasnikovsky District of Rostov Oblast, Russia. Hapry is situated 8 km east of Tanais.
Tanais
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Greek city in the Don river delta, Russia
- Categories: ancient city, protected area of Russia, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Rostov Oblast, Southern Russia, Russia, Eastern Europe, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
47.2681° or 47° 16′ 5″ northLongitude
39.33545° or 39° 20′ 8″ eastPopulation
1,940Elevation
23 metres (75 feet)Open location code
8GVX789P+65OpenStreetMap ID
node 929063537OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteGeoNames ID
11548902Wikidata ID
Q1153416
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Uzbek—“Tanais” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τάναϊς”
- Arabic: “Tanais”
- Arabic: “تانايس”
- Armenian: “Տանաիս”
- Azerbaijani: “Tanais”
- Bashkir: “Танаис”
- Catalan: “Tanais”
- Catalan: “Tanaïs”
- Catalan: “Tànais”
- Chinese: “塔納伊斯”
- Chinese: “塔纳伊斯”
- Czech: “Tanais”
- Danish: “Tanais”
- Dutch: “Tanais (stad)”
- Dutch: “Tanais”
- Esperanto: “Tanais”
- French: “Tanais”
- French: “Tanaïs”
- Georgian: “ტანაისი”
- German: “Tanais (Sarmatien)”
- German: “Tanais”
- Greek: “Τάναϊς”
- Hausa: “Tanais”
- Hebrew: “טנאיס”
- Hungarian: “Tanaisz”
- Italian: “Tana”
- Japanese: “タナイス (古代の植民都市)”
- Kazakh: “Танаис”
- Korean: “타나이스”
- Latin: “Tanais”
- Latvian: “Tanaisa”
- Ligurian: “Tann- a”
- Ligurian: “Tann-a”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tanais”
- Norwegian: “Tanais”
- Ossetian: “Танаис”
- Persian: “تانایس”
- Polish: “Tanais”
- Portuguese: “Tánais”
- Romanian: “Tana”
- Romanian: “Tanais”
- Russian: “Елизаветовское городище”
- Russian: “Недвиговское городище”
- Russian: “Танаис (город)”
- Russian: “Танаис”
- Russian: “торжище”
- Russian: “эмпорий”
- Slovenian: “Tanais”
- Spanish: “Tanais”
- Tatar: “Танаис”
- Turkish: “Tanais”
- Ukrainian: “Танаїс”
- Uzbek: “Tanais”
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