Napata
Napata was a city of ancient Kush at the fourth cataract of the Nile founded by the Egyptian Amun cult for Egyptian pilgrims given by its, as suggested, Egyptian name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Sanam.
Sanam
Archaeological site
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Sanam is a modern village in Sudan. It is located at the bank of the Nile river next to Merowe. Here were found the remains of an ancient town which flourished mainly in the Napatan Period. Sanam is situated 2 km north of Napata.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merowe and El Kurru.
Merowe
Merowe is a town in Northern State, Sudan, near Karima Town, about 330 kilometres north of Khartoum. It borders the Nile and is the site of the Merowe Dam project, the largest contemporary hydropower project in Africa.
El Kurru
Village
El-Kurru was the first of the three royal cemeteries used by the Kushite royals of Napata, also referred to as Egypt's 25th Dynasty, and is home to some of the royal Nubian Pyramids. El Kurru is situated 8 km southwest of Napata.
Karima
Town
Karima is a town in Northern State in Sudan some 400 km from Khartoum on a loop of the Nile. Karima houses the Jebel Barkal Museum. The hill of Jebel Barkal is near Karima. Karima is situated 9 km north of Napata.
Napata
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: city
- Categories: city, ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Napata” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Napata”
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Νάπατα”
- Arabic: “مملكة نبتة”
- Arabic: “نباتا”
- Arabic: “نباتة”
- Arabic: “نبتـة”
- Arabic: “نبتة”
- Arabic: “نبته”
- Armenian: “Նապատա”
- Asturian: “Napata”
- Basque: “Napata”
- Belarusian: “Напата”
- Breton: “Napata”
- Catalan: “Napata”
- Catalan: “Nàpata”
- Catalan: “Regne de Napata”
- Chinese: “納帕塔”
- Chinese: “纳帕塔”
- Chinese: “那帕塔”
- Croatian: “Napata”
- Danish: “Napata”
- Dutch: “Napata”
- Dutch: “Nepata”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نبته”
- Esperanto: “Napata”
- Estonian: “Napata”
- Finnish: “Napata”
- French: “Napata”
- French: “Royaume de Napata”
- Georgian: “ნაპატა”
- German: “Königreich von Napata”
- German: “Napata”
- Greek: “Νάπατα”
- Hebrew: “נאפטה”
- Hebrew: “נפאטה”
- Hungarian: “Napata”
- Icelandic: “Napata”
- Indonesian: “Napata”
- Italian: “Napata”
- Japanese: “ナパタ”
- Latin: “Napata”
- Latvian: “Napata”
- Lithuanian: “Napata”
- Malay: “Napata”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Napata”
- Norwegian: “Napata”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Napata”
- Persian: “نپته”
- Polish: “Dżabal al-Barkal”
- Polish: “Dżabal Barkal”
- Polish: “Dżebel Barkal”
- Polish: “Napata”
- Portuguese: “Napata”
- Romanian: “Napata”
- Russian: “Напата”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Napata”
- Slovenian: “Napata”
- Spanish: “Napata”
- Swedish: “Napata”
- Tagalog: “Napata”
- Tamil: “நாப்பட்டா”
- Thai: “แนปาตา”
- Ukrainian: “Напата”
- Urdu: “نبتہ”
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