Amara
Amara, usually distinguished as Amara East and Amara West, is the modern name of an ancient Egyptian city in Nubia, in what today is Sudan. Amara West is located on the west side of the Nile, eastern Amara, on the eastern side of the Nile.Photo: أحمد بن طارق, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: city in Nubia
- Also known as: “‘Amara West”, “`Amara West”, and “Amara, Nubia”
Amara
- Categories: city and locality
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
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Latitude
20.83333° or 20° 50′ northLongitude
30.38333° or 30° 23′ eastElevation
191 metres (627 feet)Open location code
7GGGR9MM+88OpenStreetMap ID
node 7730432179OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Amara” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “عمارة غرب”
- Asturian: “Amara, Nubia”
- Basque: “Amara (Nubia)”
- Basque: “Amara”
- Catalan: “Amara (Núbia)”
- Catalan: “Amara”
- Dutch: “Amara (Nubië)”
- Dutch: “Amara”
- Egyptian Arabic: “عمارة غرب”
- German: “Amara (Nubien)”
- German: “Amara Ost”
- German: “Amara West”
- German: “Amara-Ost”
- German: “Amara-West”
- German: “Amara”
- German: “Pedeme”
- Greek: “Αμάρα”
- Hebrew: “אמארה המערבית”
- Polish: “Amara Wschodnie”
- Polish: “Amara Zachodnie”
- Polish: “Amara”
- Slovenian: “Amara (Nubija)”
- Spanish: “Amara”
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