Egypt
Lower Egypt
Sharqia Province

Tell Basta

Bubastis, also known in Arabic as Tell-Basta or in Egyptian as Per-Bast, was an ancient Egyptian city. Bubastis is often identified with the biblical Pi-Beseth.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Egypt
  • Also known as: “Bubastis”, “Per Bast”, “Per-Baste”, “Pibeseth”, “Tall Basţah”, “Tel Basta”, and “Tell-Basta”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Zagazig.

Photo: Dr.walid reda ashour, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a town of about 430,000 people in , on the Muweis Canal. There is a museum of antiquities, the Sharkeya National Museum that contains many important archaeological exhibits…

Tell Basta

Latitude
30.5727° or 30° 34′ 22″ north
Longitude
31.5102° or 31° 30′ 37″ east
Elevation
14 metres (46 feet)
Open location code
8G2HHGF6+33
Open­Street­Map ID
way 502900452
Geo­Names ID
358710
Wiki­data ID
Q603841
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Ancient Greek to Vietnamese—“Tell Basta” goes by many names.
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βούβαστις”
  • Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Βούβαστος”
  • Arabic: “بوباستيس”
  • Arabic: “تل بسطة”
  • Arabic: “تل بسطه”
  • Basque: “Bubastis”
  • Bulgarian: “Бубастис”
  • Catalan: “Bubastis”
  • Cebuano: “Bubastis”
  • Chinese: “布巴斯提斯”
  • Croatian: “Bubastis”
  • Czech: “Bubastis”
  • Czech: “Per-Bast”
  • Czech: “Tell-Basta”
  • Dutch: “Bubastis”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل بسطه”
  • Esperanto: “Bubastis”
  • Esperanto: “Bubastiso”
  • Esperanto: “Tell Basta”
  • Esperanto: “Tell-Basta”
  • Esperanto: “Tell-Basto”
  • Esperanto: “Tella-Basta”
  • Finnish: “Bubastis”
  • French: “Pi-Béseth”
  • French: “Tell Basta”
  • Galician: “Bubastis”
  • German: “Bubastis”
  • German: “Tell Basṭa”
  • Greek: “Βούβαστις”
  • Hebrew: “בובסטיס”
  • Hungarian: “Bubasztisz”
  • Italian: “Bubasti”
  • Japanese: “ブバスティス”
  • Korean: “부바스티스”
  • Latin: “Bubastis”
  • Latin: “Bubastus”
  • Lithuanian: “Bubastis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bubastis”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bubastis”
  • Norwegian: “Bubastis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Bubastis”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Per Bastet”
  • Persian: “تپه بسطه”
  • Polish: “Bubastis”
  • Portuguese: “Bubástis”
  • Portuguese: “Tell Basta”
  • Russian: “Бубастис”
  • Serbian: “Бубастис”
  • Slovenian: “Bubastis”
  • Spanish: “Bubastis”
  • Swahili: “Bubastis”
  • Swedish: “Bubastis”
  • Thai: “บูบัสติส”
  • Turkish: “Bubastis”
  • Ukrainian: “Бубастіс”
  • Urdu: “تل بستہ”
  • Vietnamese: “Bubastis”

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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 “Tell Basta”. Photo: Einsamer Schütze, CC BY-SA 3.0.