Sabratha
Sabratha, in the Zawiya District of Libya, was the westernmost of the ancient "three cities" of Roman Tripolis, alongside Oea and Leptis Magna. From 2001 to 2007 it was the capital of the former Sabratha wa Sorman District.
- 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.
Sabratha
- Categories: city, municipality of Libya, big city, ancient city, and locality
- Location: Az Zawiyah, Libya, North Africa, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
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
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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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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