Melka Awash
Melka Awash is a town in Central Ethiopia. It is also known as Melka Kunture, the name of the world heritage listed archaeological site surrounding the town.
- Town
- Description: paleolithic site in the upper Awash Valley, Ethiopia
- Also known as“Melka Kunture”“መልካ አዋሽና / Melka Awash”
Melka Awash
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Latitude
8.7071° or 8° 42′ 26″ north
Longitude
38.6116° or 38° 36′ 42″ east
Open location code
6GWWPJ46+RJ
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Ukrainian—“Melka Awash” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Melka Kunture”
- Chinese: “梅爾卡-康恰爾考古遺址”
- Chinese: “梅爾卡·昆圖爾”
- Croatian: “Melka Kunture”
- Dutch: “Melka Kunture”
- French: “Awash Melka”
- French: “Melka Kunture”
- Galician: “Melka Kunture”
- German: “Melka Awash”
- German: “Melka Kunture und Balchit: Archäologische und paläontologische Stätten im Hochland von Äthiopien”
- German: “Melka Kunture”
- Hausa: “Melka Kunture”
- Hebrew: “מלכה קונטרה”
- Hebrew: “מלקה קונטרה”
- Italian: “Melka Kunture”
- Japanese: “メルカ＝コントゥレ”
- Maltese: “Melka Kunture”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Melka Kunture”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Melka Kunture”
- Norwegian: “Melka Kunture”
- Persian: “ملکا کنتوره”
- Polish: “Melka Kunture”
- Russian: “Мелка-Контуре”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Melka Kunture i Balchit”
- Spanish: “Melka Kunture”
- Turkish: “Melka Kunture”
- Ukrainian: “Мелка-Контуре”
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