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Pompeii

Pompeii is in , Italy, not far from . The ruined ancient Roman city of the same name was engulfed by Mt. in AD 79, and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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  • Type: Locality
  • Description: ancient Roman city near modern Naples, Italy
  • Also known as: “Pompei Antica”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Villa of the Mysteries and House of the Faun.

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The is a well-preserved suburban ancient on the outskirts of Pompeii, southern Italy. It is famous for the series of exquisite frescos in Room 5, which are usually interpreted as showing the initiation of a bride into a Greco-Roman mystery cult.

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The , constructed in the 2nd century BCE during the Samnite period, was a grand Hellenistic residence that was framed by peristyle in Pompeii, .

The , also known as the Sanctuary of Apollo, is a Roman temple built in 120 BC and dedicated to the Greek and Roman god Apollo in the ancient Roman town of Pompeii, southern Italy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Torre Annunziata and Pompei.

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is a commune in , in the region of . The Archaeological Area of is listed on UNESCO World Heritage List together with Pompeii and .

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, also known in English as Pompeii after the name of the ancient city, is a city and municipality in the Metropolitan City of Naples, in the region of in .

Town
is a comune in the , in the region of .

Pompeii

Latitude
40.7517° or 40° 45′ 6″ north
Longitude
14.4906° or 14° 29′ 26″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
8FGPQF2R+M6
Open­Street­Map ID
node 4753980853
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­locality
Geo­Names ID
3170336
Wiki­data ID
Q43332
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Pompeii” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Pompeii”
  • Afrikaans: “Pompeji”
  • Albanian: “Pompeii”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Pompēḯa”
  • Arabic: “بومبي”
  • Arabic: “مدينة بومبي الأثرية”
  • Aragonese: “Pompeya”
  • Armenian: “Պոմպեյ”
  • Arpitan: “Pompèi”
  • Asturian: “Pompeya”
  • Azerbaijani: “Pompey”
  • Balinese: “Pompéii”
  • Bashkir: “Помпеи”
  • Basque: “Pompei”
  • Basque: “Pompeia”
  • Basque: “Pompeii”
  • Basque: “Ponpeia”
  • Belarusian: “Пампеі”
  • Belarusian: “Пампэі”
  • Bengali: “পম্পেই নগরি”
  • Bengali: “পম্পেই”
  • Bosnian: “Pompeji”
  • Breton: “Pompei”
  • Breton: “Pompeii”
  • Bulgarian: “Помпей”
  • Burmese: “ပွန်ပေ”
  • Catalan: “Pompeia”
  • Catalan: “Pompeii”
  • Catalan: “Pompeis”
  • Catalan: “Ruïnes romanes de Pompeia”
  • Central Kurdish: “پۆمپی”
  • Chechen: “Помпеи”
  • Chinese: “庞培城”
  • Chinese: “庞贝”
  • Chinese: “庞贝城”
  • Chinese: “龐培城”
  • Chinese: “龐貝古城”
  • Chinese: “龐貝城”
  • Chinese: “潘沛依”
  • Croatian: “Pompeji”
  • Czech: “Pompei”
  • Czech: “Pompeii”
  • Czech: “Pompeje”
  • Danish: “Pompei”
  • Danish: “Pompeii”
  • Danish: “Pompeji”
  • Dutch: “Pompei”
  • Dutch: “Pompeï”
  • Dutch: “Pompeii”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بومبى”
  • Esperanto: “Pompeii”
  • Esperanto: “Pompeji”
  • Esperanto: “Pompejo”
  • Estonian: “Pompei”
  • Estonian: “Pompeii”
  • Estonian: “Pompeji”
  • Etruscan: “Pmpei”
  • Etruscan: “Pumpai”
  • Finnish: “Pompeii”
  • Finnish: “Pompeiji”
  • Finnish: “Pompeji”
  • French: “Pompeï”
  • French: “Pompéi”
  • Galician: “Pompeia”
  • Georgian: “პომპეი”
  • German: “Antikes Pompeji”
  • German: “Pompei”
  • German: “Pompeii”
  • German: “Pompej”
  • German: “Pompeji”
  • Greek: “Πομπηία”
  • Hausa: “Pompeii”
  • Hebrew: “פומפי”
  • Hebrew: “פומפיי”
  • Hindi: “पाम्पे”
  • Hindi: “पोम्पेइ”
  • Hungarian: “Pompei Scavi”
  • Hungarian: “Pompeii”
  • Hungarian: “Pompej”
  • Hungarian: “Pompeji”
  • Icelandic: “Pompei”
  • Icelandic: “Pompeii”
  • Ido: “Pompeyi”
  • Inari Sami: “Pompeji”
  • Indonesian: “Pompeii”
  • Irish: “Pompeii”
  • Italian: “Pompei antica”
  • Italian: “Pompei”
  • Italian: “Pompeii”
  • Italian: “Scavi archeologici di Pompei”
  • Japanese: “ポンペーイ”
  • Japanese: “ポンペイ”
  • Javanese: “Pompeii”
  • Kazakh: “Помпеи”
  • Kirghiz: “Помпей”
  • Korean: “뽐뻬이”
  • Korean: “폼페이”
  • Lao: “ປອມເປ (Pompeii)”
  • Lao: “ປອມເປ”
  • Latin: “Pompeii”
  • Latvian: “Pompeja”
  • Latvian: “Pompejas”
  • Latvian: “Pompeji”
  • Limburgan: “Pompeï”
  • Lithuanian: “Pompėja”
  • Lithuanian: “Pompėjai”
  • Lombard: “Pompei”
  • Low German: “Pompeii”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pompeii”
  • Luxembourgish: “Pompeji”
  • Macedonian: “Помпеја”
  • Malay: “Pompeii”
  • Malayalam: “പോംപൈ”
  • Marathi: “पॉँपेई”
  • Marathi: “पॉंपेई”
  • Marathi: “पॉम्पेई”
  • Mazanderani: “پومپیا”
  • Mingrelian: “პომპეი”
  • Narom: “Pompéi”
  • Neapolitan: “Pompei”
  • Neapolitan: “Pumpei”
  • Neapolitan: “Pumpeje”
  • Neapolitan: “Scave archeologgece ’e Pumpeje”
  • Nepali: “पोम्पेई”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pompei”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Pompeii”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pompei”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pompeii”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pompeij”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Pompeji”
  • Norwegian: “Pompeii”
  • Ossetian: “Помпеи”
  • Panjabi: “ਪੋਂਪੇਈ”
  • Persian: “پمپئی”
  • Persian: “پمپی”
  • Persian: “پمپیی”
  • Persian: “پومپی”
  • Persian: “ویرانه های پمپئی”
  • Picard: “Pompéi”
  • Polish: “Pompeja”
  • Polish: “Pompeje”
  • Portuguese: “Pompei”
  • Portuguese: “Pompeia”
  • Portuguese: “Pompéia”
  • Portuguese: “Pompeios”
  • Romanian: “Pompei”
  • Romanian: “Pompeii”
  • Romansh: “Pompei”
  • Russian: “Помпеи”
  • Scots: “Pompeii”
  • Serbian: “Помпеја”
  • Serbian: “Помпеји”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Pompeji”
  • Sicilian: “Pompèi”
  • Slovak: “Pompeje”
  • Slovenian: “Pompeji”
  • Slovenian: “Pompêji”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پومپئی (آنتیک شهر)”
  • South Azerbaijani: “پومپئی”
  • Spanish: “Pompei”
  • Spanish: “Pompeii”
  • Spanish: “Pompeya”
  • Sundanese: “Pompeii”
  • Swahili: “Pompei”
  • Swedish: “Pompei”
  • Swedish: “Pompeii”
  • Swedish: “Pompeij”
  • Swedish: “Pompej”
  • Swedish: “Pompeji”
  • Swiss German: “Pompeji”
  • Tagalog: “Pompeii”
  • Tagalog: “Pompeya”
  • Tamil: “பொம்பெயி”
  • Tamil: “போம்பெய்”
  • Tatar: “Помпеи”
  • Telugu: “పాంపే”
  • Telugu: “పాంపేయి”
  • Thai: “Pompeii”
  • Thai: “ปอมเปย์”
  • Thai: “ปอมเปอี”
  • Thai: “เมืองสวรรค์ ปอมเปอี”
  • Tibetan: “པོམ་པེ་ཡི།”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Pompeji”
  • Turkish: “Pompei faciası”
  • Turkish: “Pompeii Felaketi”
  • Turkish: “Pompeii”
  • Ukrainian: “Помпеї”
  • Ukrainian: “Помпея”
  • Urdu: “پامپے”
  • Urdu: “پومپئی”
  • Urdu: “پومپے”
  • Uzbek: “Pompey”
  • Vietnamese: “Pompeii”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Pompeii”
  • Welsh: “Pompeii”
  • Western Armenian: “Բոմբէյ”
  • Western Armenian: “Պոմպէյ”
  • Western Frisian: “Pompeï”
  • Western Frisian: “Pompeii”
  • Western Frisian: “Pompejy”
  • Wu Chinese: “庞贝”
  • Yue Chinese: “龐貝”

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