Hu
Hu, Huw or Hiw is the modern name of an Egyptian town on the Nile, which in more ancient times was the capital of the 7th Nome of Upper Egypt. The nome was referred to as Sesheshet.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: ancient city in Egypt
- Also known as: “Diospolis Parva”, “Hiu”, “Hiw”, “Hiw-Semaina”, and “Hu, Egypt”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sheneset-Chenoboskion (al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad) and Nag Hammâdi.
Sheneset-Chenoboskion (al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad)
Locality
al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad is a village in Nag Hammadi district of Qena Governorate, Egypt. An early center of Christianity in the Thebaid, Roman Egypt, a site frequented by Desert Fathers from the 3rd century and the site of a monastery from the 4th, it was earlier known as Chenoboskion, also called Chenoboscium, Chenoboskia and Sheneset. Sheneset-Chenoboskion (al-Qasr wa as-Sayyad) is situated 5 km northeast of Hu.
Nag Hammâdi
Town
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Nag Hammadi is a city and markaz in Upper Egypt. It is located on the west bank of the Nile in the Qena Governorate, about 80 kilometres north-west of Luxor. Nag Hammâdi is situated 5 km northwest of Hu.
Hu
- Categories: ancient city, human settlement, and village in Egypt
- Location: Qena Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Ukrainian—“Hu” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διὸς πόλις μικρά”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Διόσπολις Μικρά”
- Arabic: “هو، قنا”
- Arabic: “هو”
- Arabic: “هيو”
- Basque: “Diospolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Diòspolis Mikra”
- Catalan: “Diospolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Diòspolis Parva”
- Catalan: “Hut-Sekhem-Senusret”
- Catalan: “Seshesh”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هيو”
- Finnish: “Diospolis Mikra (Ylä-Egypti)”
- Finnish: “Diospolis Mikra”
- Finnish: “Hut-sekhem”
- Finnish: “Hut-seshemu”
- French: “Diospolis Parva”
- German: “Diospolis parva”
- German: “Diospolis Parva”
- Irish: “Hu”
- Russian: “Хив”
- Sinhala: “ඩයොස්පොලිස් පාර්වා”
- Sinhala: “හිව්-සෙමයිනා”
- Sinhala: “හූ, ඊජිප්තුව”
- Slovenian: “Hu, Egipt”
- Spanish: “Diospolis Parva”
- Spanish: “Dióspolis Parva”
- Spanish: “Diospolis”
- Spanish: “Dióspolis”
- Spanish: “Hu (Egipto)”
- Ukrainian: “Ху (Єгипет)”
- Ukrainian: “Ху”
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Notable Places Nearby
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