Kerma
Kerma is a historic town and globally renowned archaeological destination situated in the Northern State of Sudan. Located along the eastern banks of the Nile River, just south of the Third Cataract, it serves as the cradle of the ancient Kingdom of Kush.Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: City with 3,930 residents
- Description: Capital of the independent Nubian Kerma kingdom in present-day Sudan; not part of the Egyptian UNESCO serial site from Abu Simbel to Philae.
- Also known as: “Karma An Nuzul”, “Karmah an Nuzul”, “Kerma en Nuzl”, and “Kermah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Kerma and Western Deffufa.
Museum Kerma
Museum
Photo: محسن الفكي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Kerma Museum is an archeological site museum located in front of the Western Deffufa on the archaeological site of Kerma, in the Northern State of Sudan.
Western Deffufa
Archaeological site
The Western Deffufa, located in the ancient city of Kerma in northern Sudan, is one of the oldest known monumental structures in the Nile Valley. The existing building was constructed after 1750 BC, during the Classic Period of the Kerma culture.
Doukki Gel
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Doukki Gel, or Dukki Gel, was an ancient Nubian settlement. Dukki Gel was inhabited between 1800 BC to 400 AD and was occupied by a coalition of African rulers from the south around 1700 BC during the Classical Kerma period, and later by Ancient Egyptian and Nubian officials during the new kingdom period.
Kerma
- Categories: archaeological site and locality
- Location: Northern State, Northern Sudan, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
19.5931° or 19° 35′ 35″ northLongitude
30.4091° or 30° 24′ 33″ eastPopulation
3,930Elevation
224 metres (735 feet)Open location code
7GFGHCV5+6JOpenStreetMap ID
node 1958047978OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
372801Wikidata ID
Q1107569
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Kerma” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كرمة”
- Arabic: “كرمه”
- Azerbaijani: “Kerma”
- Basque: “Kerma”
- Belarusian: “Керма”
- Bengali: “কেরমা”
- Catalan: “Antic Kerma”
- Catalan: “Cultura de Kerma”
- Catalan: “Karmah”
- Catalan: “Kerma clàssica”
- Catalan: “Kerma mitjà”
- Catalan: “Kerma”
- Catalan: “Pre-Kerma”
- Chinese: “克尔玛”
- Chinese: “克爾瑪”
- Czech: “Kerma”
- Danish: “Kerma”
- Dutch: “Kerma”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كرمه”
- Finnish: “Kerma”
- French: “Kerma”
- German: “Al-Deffufa”
- German: “Deffufa”
- German: “Kerma”
- Greek: “Κέρμα”
- Gujarati: “કેરમા”
- Hebrew: “קרמה (נוביה)”
- Hebrew: “קרמה”
- Hindi: “कर्मा”
- Hungarian: “Kerma”
- Indonesian: “Kerma”
- Italian: “Kerma”
- Japanese: “ケルマ”
- Japanese: “ケルマー”
- Kannada: “ಕೆರ್ಮಾ”
- Kinyarwanda: “Kerma”
- Korean: “아부 하마드”
- Latvian: “Kerma”
- Lithuanian: “Kerma”
- Malay: “Kerma”
- Marathi: “कर्ममा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Kerma”
- Norwegian: “Kerma”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Kerma”
- Persian: “کرمه”
- Polish: “Karma an-Nuzul”
- Polish: “Kerma”
- Polish: “Kirma”
- Portuguese: “Kerma”
- Portuguese: “Querma”
- Russian: “Дукки Гель”
- Russian: “Керма”
- Sinhala: “කෙර්මා”
- Slovenian: “Kerma”
- Somali: “Kerma”
- Spanish: “Kerma”
- Swedish: “Kerma”
- Tamil: “கெர்மா”
- Telugu: “కర్మా”
- Thai: “พลาย่า เดล ตาร์เมน”
- Turkish: “Kerma”
- Twi: “Kerma”
- Ukrainian: “Керма”
- Urdu: “کیرما”
- Vietnamese: “Kerma”
- “Al-Deffufa”
- “Deffuta”
- “Kerma”
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