El Hawawish
El Hawawish is the ancient necropolis for the city of Akhmim in the 9th Nome of Upper Egypt, in modern the Sohag Governorate, Egypt.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality
- Description: village in Sohag Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Al Hawawish”, “Al Ḩawāwīsh”, “Al-Ḥawāwīsh”, “El Hawāwīsh”, and “El-Hawawish”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Akhmim and Sohag.
Akhmim
Town
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Akhmim is a city in the Sohag Governorate of Upper Egypt. Referred to by the ancient Greeks as Khemmis or Chemmis and Panopolis, it is located on the east bank of the Nile, 6 kilometres to the northeast of Sohag. Akhmim is situated 4½ km southwest of El Hawawish.
Sohag
Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Sohag, also spelled as Suhag or Suhaj, is a city on the west bank of the Nile in Egypt. The city has been the capital of Sohag Governorate since 1960, before which the capital was Girga and the name of the governorate was Girga Governorate.
El Hawawish
- Categories: human settlement and village in Egypt
- Location: Sohag Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Persian—“El Hawawish” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الحواويش، سوهاج”
- Arabic: “الحواويش”
- Arabic: “حواويش”
- Catalan: “Al-Hawawish”
- Catalan: “El-Hawawish”
- Dutch: “El-Hawawish”
- Egyptian Arabic: “الحواويش”
- French: “El-Hawawish”
- German: “Al-Hawawisch”
- German: “Ḥawāwīsch”
- Irish: “El-Hawawish”
- Persian: “الحواویش”
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