Amara West (Extinct city)
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Name (Hebrew)
עמרה מערב (עיר קדומה)
Name (Latin)
Amara West (Extinct city)
Coordinates
30.38333333 30.38333333 20.83333333 20.83333333 (gooearth )
See Also From tracing topical name
Extinct cities Sudan
See Also From tracing place name
Sudan
MARC
MARC
Other Identifiers
Wikidata:
Q454756
Library of congress:
sh2017004898
DLC:
sh2017004898
LIBRARY_OF_CONGRESS:
9810189857800041
Sources of Information
- Work cat.: Spencer, N. Amara west, 2014:cover (In 1300 BC, pharaonic Egypt created a new town on the windswept banks of the Nile in northern Sudan: Amara West. Designed as a centre for the control of occupied Upper Nubia, the town flourished for 200 years) p. 94 (Amara West largely buried, may have remained part of local knowledge for centuries)
- British Museum website, Nov. 13, 2017(Amara West is an ancient town in northern Sudan, the administrative capital of Upper Nubia, known as Kush, occupied by pharaonic Egypt between 1500 and 1070 BC. Each year a team of specialists excavates at the town, revealing ancient buildings and recovering objects)
- GEOnet, Nov. 13, 2017(Amara West. 20°50'00"N,030°23'00"E)
- Wikipedia, Nov. 13, 2017(Amara, Nubia. Amara, usually distinguished as Amara East and Amara West, is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian city in Nubia, in what today is Sudan. Amara West is located on the west side of the Nile, eastern Amara, on the eastern side of the Nile)