Kuntillet Ajrud
Kuntillet ʿAjrud or Horvat Teman is a late 9th/early 8th centuries BCE site in the northeast part of the Sinai Peninsula. It is frequently described as a shrine, though this is not certain.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in the Sinai Peninsula
- Also known as: “Contellet Garaiyeh”, “Gypsaria”, “Kuntilla Ajrud”, “Kuntillat Jurayyah”, “Kuntillat Qurayyah”, “Kuntillat Quriya”, and “Kuntillet Geraia”
Kuntillet Ajrud
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Tosk Albanian—“Kuntillet Ajrud” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كنتلة جرية”
- Arabic: “كونتيلة عجرود”
- Cebuano: “Kuntillat Jurayyah”
- Dutch: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- French: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- German: “Kuntillet ‘Adschrud”
- German: “Kuntillet ʿAdschrud”
- Hebrew: “חורבת תימן”
- Hebrew: “כונתילת עג’רוד”
- Hungarian: “Kuntillet Adzsrud”
- Italian: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- Japanese: “クンティレット・アジュルド遺跡”
- Persian: “کونتیلت عجرود”
- Polish: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- Portuguese: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- Russian: “Кунтиллет Аджруд”
- Russian: “Кунтиллет-Аджруд”
- Swahili: “Kuntillet Ajrud”
- Swedish: “Kuntillat Jurayyah”
- Swiss German: “Kuntillet ‘Adschrud”
- Tosk Albanian: “Kuntillet ’Adschrud”
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