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.Photo: PHGCOM, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient city on the Red Sea
- Also known as: “Aduli”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Zula and Foro.
Zula
Town
Zula is a small town in central Eritrea. It is situated near the head of Annesley Bay, on the Red Sea coast. Four kilometers away is the archeological site of Adulis, which was an emporium and the port of Axum.
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
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
15.26166° or 15° 15′ 42″ northLongitude
39.65913° or 39° 39′ 33″ eastOpen location code
7G7X7M65+MMOpenStreetMap ID
node 2552599194OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q378940
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Adulis” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Adoelis”
- Afrikaans: “Adulis”
- Albanian: “Adulis”
- 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: “אדולי”
- Hebrew: “אדוליס”
- Hungarian: “Adulis”
- Icelandic: “Adulis”
- Irish: “Adulis”
- Italian: “Adulis”
- Japanese: “アドゥリス”
- 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”
- Narom: “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: “Адуле”
- Ukrainian: “Адулей”
- Ukrainian: “Адуліс”
- Ukrainian: “Адулітове місто”
- Ukrainian: “Адулітон”
- Ukrainian: “Адулія”
- Upper Sorbian: “Adulis”
- Venetian: “Adulis”
- Vlaams: “Adulis”
- Walloon: “Adulis”
- Welsh: “Adulis”
- Western Frisian: “Adulis”
- Zeeuws: “Adulis”
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