Tinnis
Tennis or Tinnīs was a medieval city in Egypt which no longer exists.

Tennis or Tinnīs was a medieval city in Egypt which no longer exists. It was most prosperous from the 9th century to the 11th century until its abandonment. It was located at 31°12′N 32°14′E, on an island in Lake Manzala, southwest of Port Said.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Getting to Tinnis
- Airports
- Port Said (PSD), 9 km · Cairo (CAI), 145 km · El Arish (AAC), 153 km
- Cairo → Tinnis4991 km · quickest by air, 17h 45m · E£22,240–34,440
- El Arish → Tinnis5262 km · quickest by air, 16h · E£23,090–35,760
- Al Jiza → Tinnis5541 km · quickest by air, 19h 18m · $1,190–1,790
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tinnis
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tinnis. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inLouis Cruise Lines used to operate a passenger ferry from Limassol (Cyprus) to Port Said.
- Get aroundPort Said is linked by the ferry to its twin city Port Fouad which is considered the Asian part of this Afro-Asian governorate "Port Said" on the eastern bank of the Suez Canal, the ferry is used to cross the Canal between the two cities holding both people and cars for free, the trip time between the two cities doesn't exceed 10 minutes, It is a nice journey that you can enjoy for free.
From Wikivoyage: Port Said, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Tinnis
Tinnis is 10 km from Port Said, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.