Rosetta
Rosetta or Rashid is a port city of the Nile Delta, 65 km east of Alexandria, in Egypt's Beheira governorate. The Rosetta Stone was discovered in nearby Fort Julien in 1799.
- Type: City with 68,900 residents
- Description: city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Bolbitine”, “Bolbythia”, “Er-Rashid”, “Rachïd”, “Raschîd”, “Rashid”, “Rashîd”, “Rasid”, “Raxid”, “Reşit”, “Rosetta (Egypte)”, “Rosetta, Egypt”, “Rosetta, Rosetta, Al Rashid, Rashid”, “Rossetta”, “Розетта”, “Росета”, “קטגוריה:רשיד”, “تصنيف:رشيد”, “مدينة رشيد”, and “拉希德”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Rashid National Museum and Al-Mahaly Mosque.
Al-Mahaly Mosque
Mosque
Al-Mahalli Mosque is a mosque and mausoleum in Rosetta, in the Beheira Governorate of Egypt.
Rosetta
- Category: locality
- Location: Beheira, Lower Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
31.4014° or 31° 24′ 5″ north
Longitude
30.4184° or 30° 25′ 6″ east
Population
68,900
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
UN/LOCODE
EG PRA
Open location code
8G3GCC29+H9
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Rosetta” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Rosetta, Egipte”
- Afrikaans: “Rosetta”
- Arabic: “رشيد”
- Asturian: “Rosetta”
- Basque: “Rosetta”
- Bengali: “রশিদ”
- Breton: “Rachid (Egipt)”
- Breton: “Rachid”
- Bulgarian: “Розета”
- Catalan: “Rosetta”
- Cebuano: “Rosetta”
- Chinese: “罗塞塔”
- Chinese: “羅塞塔”
- Croatian: “Rozeta”
- Czech: “Ar-Rašíd”
- Czech: “Rosetta”
- Dutch: “Rosetta”
- Egyptian Arabic: “رشيد”
- Esperanto: “Raŝido”
- Estonian: “Rashīd”
- Finnish: “Rosetta”
- French: “Rosetta”
- French: “Rosette”
- Galician: “Rosetta”
- Georgian: “რაშიდი”
- German: “Raschīd”
- German: “Rosetta”
- German: “Rosette”
- Greek: “Ροζέτα”
- Hausa: “Rosetta”
- Hebrew: “רשיד”
- Hindi: “रोज़ेटा”
- Hungarian: “Rosetta”
- Icelandic: “Rosetta”
- Indonesian: “Rasyid, Mesir”
- Indonesian: “Rasyid”
- Irish: “Rosetta”
- Italian: “Rosetta”
- Japanese: “ロゼッタ”
- Javanese: “Rosetta”
- Korean: “로제타”
- Latin: “Rosetta”
- Malagasy: “Rosetta”
- Malay: “Rasyid”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rosetta”
- Norwegian: “Rosetta”
- Persian: “رشید”
- Polish: “Rosetta”
- Portuguese: “Roseta”
- Russian: “Рашид”
- Serbian: “Rozeta”
- Serbian: “Розета”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rašid”
- Sinhala: “රොසෙටා”
- Slovak: “Ar-Rašíd”
- Slovenian: “Rosetta”
- Spanish: “Rosetta”
- Swedish: “Rosetta, Egypten”
- Swedish: “Rosetta”
- Turkish: “Reşid”
- Ukrainian: “Рашид”
- Urdu: “رشيد”
- Waray (Philippines): “Rosetta”
- Wu Chinese: “罗塞塔”
- Yue Chinese: “羅塞塔”
- Zulu: “Rosetta”
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