El Mo’alla
El Mo'alla is a town in Upper Egypt located about 35 km south of Luxor, on the east bank of the Nile. Known as Hefat by ancient Egyptians, it served as a necropolis for the nearby city of Djerty since the early First Intermediate Period.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 8,050 residents
- Description: village in Luxor Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Ma‘allah”, “Al Ma`allah”, “Al Mialla”, “Al Mu‘allah”, “El Mahla”, “El Mi‘alla”, “El Mi‘alla, Al Mialla, Al Maallah”, and “Mo’alla”
El Mo’alla
- Categories: necropolis, archaeological site, village in Egypt, and locality
- Location: Qena Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
25.475° or 25° 28′ 30″ northLongitude
32.51611° or 32° 30′ 58″ eastPopulation
8,050Elevation
83 metres (272 feet)Open location code
7GQJFGF8+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 768737307OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
360842Wikidata ID
Q12193415
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Uzbek—“El Mo’alla” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المعلة، قنا”
- Arabic: “المعلة”
- Catalan: “Al-Mo’alla”
- Catalan: “Al-Moalla”
- Catalan: “Hefat”
- Catalan: “Moalla”
- Dutch: “Mo’alla”
- Egyptian Arabic: “المعلة”
- French: “Al Mialla”
- French: “El Mo’alla”
- German: “Al Mialla”
- German: “al-Ma’alla”
- German: “el-Mi’allah”
- German: “el-Mo’alla”
- German: “Maʿalla”
- German: “Mo’alla”
- Hausa: “El Mo’alla”
- Spanish: “El-Moalla”
- Uzbek: “Al-Mella”
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