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.
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Places in the Area

Nearby places include Merowe and El Kurru.
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is a town in Northern State, , near , about 330 kilometres north of .
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was the first of the three royal cemeteries… is situated 8 km southwest of Napata.
is a town in Northern State in some 400 km from on a loop of the Nile. is situated 9 km north of Napata.

Napata

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Latitude
18.46667° or 18° 28′ north
Longitude
31.81667° or 31° 49′ east
Open location code
7GCHFR88+MM
Geo­Names ID
369398
Wiki­data ID
Q743282

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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: “נפטה”
  • Hebrew: “נפת”
  • 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”
  • Turkish: “Napata”
  • Ukrainian: “Напата”
  • Urdu: “نبتہ”

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