Serbonitis (lake)

natural · 550 BC – 2100 AD

A large, saline lake in Egypt on the north coast of the Sinai Peninsula; the "Serbonian Bog" described by Herodotus.

Coordinates

31.11744, 33.06782

Also known as

Buhayrat al Bardawil (arz), Buḩayrat al Bardawīl, بحيرة البردويل (arz), Lake Bardawil (en), Lake Bardawil (en), Serbonitis Lacus (la), Serbonitis lacus (la), Sirbonis limne (grc), Σιρβωνὶς λίμνη (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

See Serbonitis (lake) on the map →