Dendera
Dendera is an archaeological locality in Egypt just outside the town of Qena in the region of Middle Egypt.
Photo: IJA, Public domain.- Type: Town with 53,100 residents
- Description: village in Qena Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Dandarah”, “Dandera”, “Dendara”, “Dendéra”, “Déndera”, “Dendera , Denderah, Dandarah”, “Denderah”, “Dendereh”, “Dendra”, “Dendrah”, “Iunet”, “Ta-ynt-netert”, “Tantarer”, “Tantere”, “Tentira”, “Tentiris”, “Tentyra”, “Tentyris”, “Tintyra”, “Тентира”, “دندرة، قنا”, and “तेन्तुरा”
Dendera
- Categories: archaeological site, Egyptian temple, village, and locality
- Location: Qena Governorate, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
26.169° or 26° 10′ 8″ north
Longitude
32.6571° or 32° 39′ 26″ east
Population
53,100
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
Open location code
7GRJ5M94+HR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Ancient Greek to Zulu—“Dendera” goes by many names.
- Ancient Greek (to 1453): “Τεντυρις”
- Arabic: “دندرة”
- Armenian: “Դանդարա”
- Basque: “Dendera”
- Belarusian: “Дэндэра”
- Bengali: “দেনদেরা”
- Catalan: “Dandara”
- Chinese: “丹德拉”
- Chinese: “丹达腊”
- Croatian: “Dendera”
- Czech: “Dendera”
- Dutch: “Dendera”
- Egyptian Arabic: “دندره”
- Esperanto: “Dendero”
- Finnish: “Dendera”
- French: “Dendérah”
- Georgian: “დენდერა”
- German: “Dendera”
- Greek: “Δένδερα”
- Hebrew: “דנדרה”
- Hindi: “देन्देरा”
- Indonesian: “Dendera”
- Italian: “Dendera”
- Japanese: “デンデラ”
- Korean: “덴데라”
- Lithuanian: “Dendera”
- Malay: “Dendera”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Dendera”
- Norwegian: “Dendera”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Dandara”
- Persian: “دندره”
- Polish: “Dendera”
- Portuguese: “Dendera”
- Romanian: “Dendera”
- Russian: “Дандара”
- Russian: “Дендера”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Dendera”
- Slovak: “Dandara”
- Slovenian: “Dendera”
- South Azerbaijani: “دندره”
- Spanish: “Dendera”
- Swedish: “Dendera”
- Tajik: “Дандара”
- Turkish: “Dendera”
- Ukrainian: “Дендера”
- Urdu: “دندرہ”
- Welsh: “Dendera”
- Western Armenian: “Տենտերա”
- Zulu: “Dendera”
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