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.
- City with 3,930 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 224 metres (735 feet)
- 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”“Kermah”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Museum Kerma and Western Deffufa.
Kerma
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Latitude
19.5931° or 19° 35′ 35″ north
Longitude
30.4091° or 30° 24′ 33″ east
Open location code
7GFGHCV5+6J
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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”
- “Deffuta”
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