Ephesus
Ephesus is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with magnificent Roman ruins. It's in the Central Aegean region of Turkey 4 km west of Selçuk and 19 km northeast of the beach resort of Kuşadası.
- Tourist attraction
- …lies at an elevation of 7 metres (23 feet)
- Description: ancient Greek city in Anatolia
- Also known as“Efes”“Ephesos”“Mint of Ephesus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Temple of Artemis and Library of Celsus.
Church of Mary
Ruins
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.Ephesus
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- Location
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Latitude
37.941° or 37° 56′ 27″ north
Longitude
27.3425° or 27° 20′ 33″ east
Open location code
8G99W8RV+92
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
OpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ephesus” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Efese”
- Amharic: “ኤፌሶን”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Ἔφεσος”
- Arabic: “أفسس”
- Arabic: “أفسوس”
- Arabic: “إفسس”
- Arabic: “إفسوس”
- Arabic: “افسس”
- Armenian: “Եփեսոս”
- Armenian: “Էֆես”
- Arpitan: “Èfèso”
- Asturian: “Éfesu”
- Azerbaijani: “Efes”
- Basque: “Efeso”
- Belarusian: “Эфес”
- Belarusian: “Эфэс (горад)”
- Belarusian: “Эфэс”
- Bengali: “এফেসাস”
- Bengali: “এফেসোস”
- Bosnian: “Efes”
- Breton: “Efesios”
- Breton: “Efesos”
- Bulgarian: “Ефес”
- Catalan: “Efes”
- Catalan: “Efeso”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەفسوس”
- Chinese: “以弗所”
- Chinese: “爱菲索斯”
- Chinese: “艾菲斯”
- Chinese: “艾菲索斯”
- Croatian: “Efez”
- Czech: “Efes”
- Czech: “Efesos”
- Czech: “Efez”
- Czech: “Ephesos”
- Danish: “Efesos”
- Danish: “Efesus”
- Dimli (individual language): “Efes”
- Dutch: “Efese”
- Dutch: “Efesos”
- Dutch: “Efesus”
- Dutch: “Efeze”
- Dutch: “Ephese”
- Dutch: “Ephesos”
- Dutch: “Ephesus”
- Dutch: “Epheze”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افسس”
- Egyptian Arabic: “افسوس”
- Erzya: “Эфес ош”
- Esperanto: “Efeso”
- Esperanto: “Efezo”
- Estonian: “Ephesos”
- Extremaduran: “Éfesu”
- Faroese: “Efesus”
- Finnish: “Efeso”
- Finnish: “Efesos”
- French: “Ephese”
- French: “Ephèse”
- French: “Éphèse”
- Galician: “Éfeso”
- Georgian: “ეფესო”
- German: “Apasa”
- German: “Efesos”
- German: “Ephesos”
- German: “Ephesus”
- Gothic: “𐌰𐌹𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍉”
- Greek: “Ἔφεσος”
- Greek: “Έφεσος”
- Greek: “Έφεσσος”
- Hakka Chinese: “Yî-fut-só”
- Hebrew: “אפסוס”
- Hindi: “इफिसुस”
- Hungarian: “Apasa”
- Hungarian: “Apasas”
- Hungarian: “Apašaš”
- Hungarian: “Apasza”
- Hungarian: “Apaszasz”
- Hungarian: “Efes”
- Hungarian: “Efeszosz”
- Hungarian: “Efezus”
- Hungarian: “Ephesos”
- Hungarian: “Ephesus”
- Hungarian: “Epheszosz”
- Icelandic: “Efesos”
- Icelandic: “Efesus”
- Indonesian: “Efesus”
- Indonesian: “Ephesos”
- Irish: “Eifeasas”
- Italian: “Efeso”
- Japanese: “エフェス”
- Japanese: “エフェソ”
- Japanese: “エフェソス”
- Japanese: “エペソ”
- Japanese: “エペソス”
- Javanese: “Efesus”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Ephesos”
- Korean: “에베소”
- Korean: “에페소”
- Korean: “에페소스”
- Korean: “에페수스”
- Korean: “에페이소스”
- Kurdish: “Efes”
- Kurdish: “Efesos”
- Latin: “Ephesus”
- Latvian: “Efesa”
- Lithuanian: “Efesas”
- Macedonian: “Ефес”
- Malagasy: “Efeso”
- Malagasy: “Efesosy”
- Malagasy: “Efesôsy”
- Malay: “Efesus”
- Malay: “Ephesos”
- Maltese: “Efes”
- Maltese: “Efesu”
- Maltese: “Ephesus”
- Maori: “Epehi”
- Marathi: “इफेसूस”
- Min Dong Chinese: “Ī-hók-sū”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Efesos”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Efesus”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ephesus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Efesos”
- Norwegian: “Efesos”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Efès”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Ephese”
- Persian: “افز”
- Persian: “افسس”
- Persian: “ِافِسُس”
- Persian: “افسوس”
- Persian: “افه سوس”
- Persian: “افهٔ سوس”
- Persian: “افهسوس”
- Persian: “شهر افسوس”
- Polish: “Efez”
- Portuguese: “Efes”
- Portuguese: “Éfeso”
- Romanian: “Apasa”
- Romanian: “Efes”
- Russian: “Ефес, город в Малой Азии”
- Russian: “Ефес”
- Russian: “Эфес”
- Saterfriesisch: “Ephesos”
- Scots: “Ephesus”
- Serbian: “Ефез”
- Serbian: “Ефес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Efes”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Efez”
- Sicilian: “Efesu”
- Sicilian: “Èfesu”
- Sicilian: “Èfisu”
- Silesian: “Efez”
- Slovak: “Efesos”
- Slovak: “Efez”
- Slovak: “Efezos”
- Slovenian: “Efez”
- Spanish: “Álope”
- Spanish: “Efeso”
- Spanish: “Éfeso”
- Spanish: “Esmirna”
- Spanish: “Hemonio”
- Spanish: “Ortigia”
- Spanish: “Ptelea”
- Spanish: “Traquia”
- Swahili: “Efeso”
- Swedish: “Efasos”
- Swedish: “Efes”
- Swedish: “Efesos”
- Swedish: “Efesus”
- Swedish: “Ephesus”
- Swiss German: “Ephesos”
- Tagalog: “Efeso”
- Tagalog: “Ephesus”
- Tamil: “எபேசஸ்”
- Thai: “Ephesus”
- Thai: “เอฟาซัส”
- Thai: “เอฟิซัส”
- Turkish: “Apaša”
- Turkish: “Efes Antik Kenti”
- Turkish: “Efes Antik Şehri”
- Turkish: “Efes Harabeleri”
- Turkish: “Efes”
- Turkish: “Ephesos”
- Turkish: “Ephesus”
- Ukrainian: “Ефес”
- Urdu: “افسس”
- Uzbek: “Efes”
- Venetian: “Èfezo”
- Vietnamese: “Ephesus”
- Walloon: “Efeze”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ephesus”
- Welsh: “Effesus”
- Welsh: “Ephesus”
- Wu Chinese: “以弗所”
- Yue Chinese: “艾菲索斯”
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