El Kurru
El-Kurru was the first of the three royal cemeteries used by the Kushite royals of Napata, also referred to as Egypt's 25th Dynasty, and is home to some of the royal Nubian Pyramids.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village
- Description: cemetery in Sudan
- Also known as: “Al-Khurru”, “Al-Kurru”, “El Kuru”, “El-Khurru”, and “El-Kurru”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merowe.
Merowe
Merowe is a town in Northern State, Sudan, near Karima Town, about 330 kilometres north of Khartoum. It borders the Nile and is the site of the Merowe Dam project, the largest contemporary hydropower project in Africa.
El Kurru
- Categories: archaeological site, cemetery, and locality
- Location: Northern State, Sudan, Sahel, Africa
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
18.41024° or 18° 24′ 37″ northLongitude
31.7742° or 31° 46′ 27″ eastOpen location code
7GCHCQ6F+3MOpenStreetMap ID
node 4259711558OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageWikidata ID
Q2119834
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“El Kurru” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الكرو”
- Asturian: “El Kurru”
- Basque: “El Kurru”
- Basque: “El-Kurru”
- Belarusian: “Эль-Куру”
- Catalan: “Al-Kurru”
- Czech: “El-Kurru”
- Dutch: “El-Khurru”
- Dutch: “El-Kurru”
- Esperanto: “El-Kurru”
- French: “El-kourrou”
- French: “El-Kourrou”
- French: “El-Kuru”
- German: “Al-Kurru”
- German: “El-Kurru”
- German: “Pyramiden von al-Kurru”
- German: “Pyramiden von Al-Kurru”
- German: “Pyramiden von el-Kurru”
- German: “Pyramiden von El-Kurru”
- Greek: “Ελ Κούρου”
- Hungarian: “El-Kurru”
- Italian: “El-Khurru”
- Polish: “Al-Kurru”
- Polish: “Al-Kuru”
- Polish: “El-Kurru”
- Portuguese: “El-Kurru”
- Russian: “пирамиды Эль-Курру”
- Russian: “Эль-Курру”
- Slovenian: “El Kurru”
- Spanish: “Al Kurru”
- Spanish: “Al-Kurru”
- Spanish: “El Kurru”
- Spanish: “El-Kurru”
- Ukrainian: “Ель-Курру”
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