Kellia
Kellia, referred to as "the innermost desert", was a 4th-century Egyptian Christian monastic community spread out over many square kilometers in the Nitrian Desert about 65 km south of Alexandria.Photo: Geo24, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Kellia
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: place in Egypt
- Categories: human settlement, monastery, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Beheira, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
30.77692° or 30° 46′ 37″ northLongitude
30.37049° or 30° 22′ 14″ eastOpen location code
8G2GQ9GC+Q5OpenStreetMap ID
way 265278218OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1738281
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Kellia” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كيليا”
- Dutch: “Kellia”
- Finnish: “Kellia”
- French: “Kellia”
- French: “les Kellia”
- German: “Kellia”
- Hungarian: “Kelliá”
- Irish: “Kellia”
- Persian: “کلیا (مصر)”
- Persian: “کلیا”
- Russian: “Келлия”
- Spanish: “Kellia”
- Swahili: “Kellia”
- Ukrainian: “Kellia”
- Ukrainian: “the Cells”
- Ukrainian: “Келлія (монашеська громада)”
- Ukrainian: “Келлія”
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