Iraq
Baghdad Governorate
Mahmudiya District

Opis

Opis was an ancient Near East city near the , not far from modern . The equivalence of Opis and Upi are now usually assumed but not yet proven.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Seleucia.

, also known as Seleucia-on-Tigris or on the Tigris or ad Tigrim, was a major Mesopotamian city, located on the west bank of the Tigris River within the present-day in . is situated 220 metres west of Opis.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ctesiphon.

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is a ruin in . It was once an ancient Persian capital city, but only a former palace, with the world's largest unreinforced arch, remains standing. The town of Salman Pak is nearby, and is also covered in this article.

Opis

Latitude
33.09464° or 33° 5′ 41″ north
Longitude
44.52293° or 44° 31′ 23″ east
Open location code
8H563GVF+V5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 9916961376
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q1287526
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“Opis” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أوبيس”
  • Catalan: “Opis”
  • Chinese: “俄庇斯”
  • Chinese: “奥匹斯”
  • Chinese: “奥皮斯”
  • Chinese: “欧庇斯”
  • Chinese: “歐皮斯”
  • Croatian: “Opis”
  • Dutch: “Opis”
  • Esperanto: “Opiso”
  • Finnish: “Opis”
  • French: “Opis”
  • German: “Opis”
  • Hebrew: “אופיס (עיר)”
  • Hungarian: “Ópis”
  • Indonesian: “Opis”
  • Italian: “Opis”
  • Italian: “Òpis”
  • Japanese: “オピス”
  • Korean: “오피스”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Opis”
  • Norwegian: “Opis”
  • Persian: “اوپی”
  • Persian: “اوپیس”
  • Portuguese: “Opis”
  • Portuguese: “Ópis”
  • Portuguese: “Upi”
  • Russian: “Упи”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Opis”
  • Spanish: “Opis”

Places with the Same Name

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include تل عمر and Seleucia.

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Opis”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.