El-Ashmunein
Hermopolis was a major city in antiquity, located near the boundary between Lower and Upper Egypt. Its Egyptian name Khemenu derives from the eight deities said to reside in the city.Photo: RolandUnger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: major city in antiquity and village in Minya Governorate, Egypt
- Also known as: “Hermopolis”, “Hermopolis Magna”, “Hermupolis”, and “Hermupolis, Hermupolis”
El-Ashmunein
- Categories: archaeological site, village in Egypt, and locality
- Location: Minya Governorate, Middle Egypt, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
27.7756° or 27° 46′ 32″ northLongitude
30.8033° or 30° 48′ 12″ eastElevation
48 metres (157 feet)Open location code
7GVGQRG3+68OpenStreetMap ID
node 768554350OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“El-Ashmunein” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أشمونين”
- Arabic: “الأشمونين”
- Arabic: “الاشمونين”
- Arabic: “خمون”
- Arabic: “هرموپوليس ماگنا”
- Arabic: “هيرموبوليس ماجنا”
- Basque: “Hermopolis Magna”
- Basque: “Hermopolis”
- Bulgarian: “Хермопол”
- Catalan: “Hermòpolis Magna”
- Catalan: “Hermúpolis Magna”
- Cebuano: “Hermopolis”
- Chinese: “大赫尔莫波利斯”
- Chinese: “大赫爾莫波利斯”
- Chinese: “赫尔莫波利斯”
- Chinese: “赫尔莫波斯”
- Chinese: “赫尔墨波利斯”
- Chinese: “赫爾莫波利斯”
- Chinese: “赫爾莫波斯”
- Chinese: “赫爾莫波斯城”
- Czech: “Chemenu”
- Dutch: “Hermopolis Magna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اشمونين”
- Esperanto: “Ĥmun”
- Finnish: “Hermopolis Megale”
- Finnish: “Hermopolis”
- French: “Hermopolis Magna”
- French: “Hermupolis”
- Galician: “Hermópole Magna”
- Galician: “Hermópolis Magna”
- Georgian: “ჰერმოპოლისი”
- German: “al-Aschmūnaīn”
- German: “Aschmūnein”
- German: “el-Aschmunein”
- German: “Hermopolis Magna”
- German: “Hermupolis”
- Greek: “Ερμούπολις η μεγάλη”
- Hungarian: “Hermopolisz”
- Indonesian: “Hermopolis”
- Italian: “Ermopoli”
- Italian: “Hermopolis Magna”
- Japanese: “ヘルモポリス”
- Korean: “헤르모폴리스”
- Lithuanian: “Hermopolis”
- Malay: “Hermopolis”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hermopolis”
- Norwegian: “Hermopolis”
- Persian: “الاشمونین”
- Polish: “Hermopolis”
- Portuguese: “Hermópolis Magna”
- Russian: “Гермополис”
- Russian: “Гермополь”
- Serbian: “Хермополис”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hermopolis”
- Slovak: “Chemenu”
- Slovenian: “Hermopolis”
- Spanish: “Hermopolis Magna”
- Spanish: “Hermópolis Magna”
- Swedish: “Hermopolis”
- Thai: “แฮร์โมโปลิส”
- Turkish: “Hermopolis”
- Ukrainian: “Гермополіс”
- Urdu: “اشمونین”
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