Sabratha

Sabratha, in the of , was the westernmost of the ancient "three cities" of Roman Tripolis, alongside Oea and . From 2001 to 2007 it was the capital of the former .
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  • Type: Town with 83,400 residents
  • Description: city in Libya
  • Also known as: “Madīnat Şabrātah”, “Sábra”, “Şabrah”, “Sabrata”, “Şabrātah”, “ⵚⴱⵔⴰⵜⴰ”, and “ⵚⴱⵔⴰⵜⴰ صبراتة”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Roman Museum, Sabratha and Amphitheatre of Sabratha.

Museum
Photo: Haitham Alkilani, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Archaeological site
Photo: Leo Wehrli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is an archaeological site.

Archaeological site
Photo: Hakeem.gadi, GFDL.
is an archaeological site.

Sabratha

Latitude
32.7914° or 32° 47′ 29″ north
Longitude
12.489° or 12° 29′ 20″ east
Population
83,400
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8F4JQFRQ+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1336960682
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2212771
Wiki­data ID
Q192918
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Sabratha” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Sabratha”
  • Arabic: “صبراتا”
  • Arabic: “صبراتة”
  • Arabic: “صبراته”
  • Arabic: “صبراثا”
  • Armenian: “Սաբրաթա”
  • Asturian: “Sabratha”
  • Azerbaijani: “Sabrata”
  • Bashkir: “Абратон”
  • Bashkir: “Сабрата”
  • Bashkir: “Сабрафа”
  • Basque: “Sabratha”
  • Belarusian: “Сабрата”
  • Bengali: “সাব্রাতা”
  • Bulgarian: “Собрата”
  • Burmese: “ဆာဘရက်သာမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Abrotonum”
  • Catalan: “Sabrata”
  • Catalan: “Sabratha”
  • Cebuano: “Şabrātah”
  • Chinese: “塞卜拉泰”
  • Croatian: “Sabrata”
  • Czech: “Sabrata”
  • Czech: “Sabráta”
  • Dagbani: “Sabratha”
  • Danish: “Sabratha”
  • Dutch: “Sabratha”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “صبراته”
  • Esperanto: “Sabrata”
  • Finnish: “Sabratha”
  • French: “Sabratha”
  • Galician: “Sabratha”
  • Georgian: “საბრათა”
  • German: “Sabrata”
  • German: “Sabratha”
  • Greek: “Σαβράθα”
  • Gujarati: “સબ્રાથા”
  • Hebrew: “סברתה”
  • Hindi: “सब्राथा”
  • Indonesian: “Sabratha”
  • Irish: “Sabratha”
  • Italian: “Sabrata”
  • Italian: “Sabratha Vulpia”
  • Italian: “Sabratha”
  • Italian: “Siburata”
  • Japanese: “サブラータの古代遺跡”
  • Japanese: “サブラタ”
  • Japanese: “サブラタの考古学遺跡”
  • Kannada: “ಸಬ್ರಥಾ”
  • Kazakh: “Sabrata (Abroton) qalası”
  • Kazakh: “Сабрата (Абротон) қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “Сабрата қаласы”
  • Kazakh: “سابراتا (ابروتون) قالاسى”
  • Kinyarwanda: “Sabratha”
  • Korean: “사브라타”
  • Latin: “Sabrata”
  • Latvian: “Sabrata”
  • Lithuanian: “Sabrata”
  • Lithuanian: “Sabratah”
  • Macedonian: “Сабрата”
  • Maithili: “सबरथा”
  • Malay: “Sabratha”
  • Maltese: “Sabrata”
  • Maltese: “Sabratha”
  • Marathi: “सबराथा”
  • Nepali: “सबरथा”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sabratha”
  • Norwegian: “Sabratha”
  • Persian: “صبراته”
  • Polish: “Habrotonon”
  • Polish: “Sabrata”
  • Polish: “Sabratha”
  • Portuguese: “Sabratha”
  • Portuguese: “Sítio arqueológico de Sabratha”
  • Romanian: “Sabratah”
  • Russian: “Сабрата”
  • Russian: “Сабрафа”
  • Scots: “Sabratha”
  • Serbian: “Sabrata”
  • Serbian: “Сабрата”
  • Serbian: “Сибурата”
  • Serbian: “صبراتة”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sabrata”
  • Sinhala: “සබ්‍රන්ත”
  • Slovak: “Sabráta”
  • Slovenian: “Sabrata”
  • South Azerbaijani: “صبراته”
  • Spanish: “Sabrata”
  • Spanish: “Sabratha”
  • Swedish: “Sabrata”
  • Swedish: “Sabratah”
  • Swedish: “Şabrātah”
  • Tajik: “Сабрата”
  • Tamil: “சப்ரதா”
  • Telugu: “సబ్రతా”
  • Thai: “ซาบราทา”
  • Turkish: “Sabratha”
  • Ukrainian: “Сабрата”
  • Urdu: “سبراٹھا”
  • Urdu: “صبراتہ”
  • Venetian: “Sabrata”
  • Vietnamese: “Sabratah”
  • Vietnamese: “Sabratha”
  • Volapük: “Sabratä”
  • Zulu: “Sabratha”

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