Adulis
Adulis was an ancient city along the Red Sea in the Gulf of Zula, about 40 kilometers south of Massawa. Its ruins lie within the modern Eritrean city of Zula.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city on the Red Sea
- Also known as: “Aduli”, “Адуле”, “Адулей”, “Адулітове місто”, “Адулітон”, “Адулія”, and “אדולי”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zula and Foro.
Foro
Town
Foro is a town in the Northern Red Sea region of Eritrea. Foro is situated 4 km west of Adulis.
Adulis
- Categories: human settlement, port city, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Foro subregion, Northern Red Sea Region, Eritrea, East Africa, Africa
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Latitude
15.26166° or 15° 15′ 42″ north
Longitude
39.65913° or 39° 39′ 33″ east
Open location code
7G7X7M65+MM
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Adulis” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Adoelis”
- Afrikaans: “Adulis”
- Albanian: “Adulis”
- Arabic: “أدوليس”
- Arabic: “عدوليس”
- Aragonese: “Adulis”
- Asturian: “Adulis”
- Basque: “Adulis”
- Bavarian: “Adulis”
- Bosnian: “Adulis”
- Catalan: “Adulis”
- Chinese: “阿杜利斯”
- Corsican: “Adulis”
- Croatian: “Adulis”
- Czech: “Adulis”
- Danish: “Adulis”
- Dutch: “Adulis”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عدوليس”
- Esperanto: “Adulis”
- Estonian: “Adulis”
- Faroese: “Adulis”
- Finnish: “Adulis”
- French: “Adulis”
- Galician: “Adulis”
- German: “Adulis”
- Greek: “Άδουλις”
- Haitian: “Adulis”
- Hebrew: “אדוליס”
- Hungarian: “Adulis”
- Icelandic: “Adulis”
- Irish: “Adulis”
- Italian: “Adulis”
- Japanese: “アドゥリス”
- Jèrriais: “Adulis”
- Kölsch: “Adulis”
- Korean: “아둘리스”
- Latin: “Adulis”
- Latvian: “Adulis”
- Latvian: “Adulisa”
- Ligurian: “Adulis”
- Limburgan: “Adulis”
- Lithuanian: “Adulis”
- Lombard: “Adulis”
- Low German: “Adulis”
- Lower Sorbian: “Adulis”
- Luxembourgish: “Adulis”
- Maltese: “Adulis”
- Mirandese: “Adulis”
- Northern Frisian: “Adulis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Adulis”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Adulis”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Adulis”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Adulis”
- Pali: “Adulis”
- Pennsylvania German: “Adulis”
- Pfaelzisch: “Adulis”
- Picard: “Adulis”
- Piemontese: “Adulis”
- Polish: “Adulis”
- Portuguese: “Adulis”
- Portuguese: “Adúlis”
- Romanian: “Adulis”
- Romansh: “Adulis”
- Russian: “Адулис”
- Sardinian: “Adulis”
- Saterfriesisch: “Adulis”
- Scots: “Adulis”
- Sicilian: “Adulis”
- Silesian: “Adulis”
- Slovak: “Adulis”
- Slovenian: “Adulis”
- Spanish: “Adulis”
- Swedish: “Adulis”
- Turkish: “Adulis”
- Ukrainian: “Адуліс”
- Upper Sorbian: “Adulis”
- Urdu: “عدولیس”
- Venetian: “Adulis”
- Vlaams: “Adulis”
- Walloon: “Adulis”
- Welsh: “Adulis”
- Western Frisian: “Adulis”
- Zeeuws: “Adulis”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Zone de fouille de Francis Anfray (1961-1962) and Église du Nord.
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