An-Nekhel Fortress
The Fortress of an-Nekhel is a Ksar located in the Nekhel Municipality of the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt. It holds a strategic location at the exact center of the peninsula.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.An-Nekhel Fortress
- Type: Castle
- Description: fortress in Sinai, Egypt
- Categories: fortress, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: North Sinai Governorate, Egypt, North Africa, Africa
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Latitude
29.91192° or 29° 54′ 43″ north
Longitude
33.74604° or 33° 44′ 46″ east
Open location code
7GXMWP6W+QC
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
historic=castle
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“An-Nekhel Fortress” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قلعة النخل”
- Arabic: “قلعة نخل”
- Catalan: “fortalesa d’An-Nekhel”
- Chinese: “尼赫堡壘”
- Egyptian Arabic: “قلعة النخل”
- French: “Forteresse d’an-Nekhl”
- German: “Festung an-Nachl”
- Greek: “Φρούριο Αν Νέκχελ”
- Hausa: “Ginin An-Nekhel”
- Hebrew: “א-נח’ל”
- Malayalam: “ആൻ നെഖേൽ കോട്ട”
- Persian: “قلعه النخل”
- Polish: “An-Nachl”
- Polish: “Nachl”
- Spanish: “fortaleza de An-Nekhel”
- Spanish: “Fortaleza de An-Nekhel”
- Turkish: “An-Nekhel Kalesi”
- Turkish: “Nahl Kalesi”
- Urdu: “قلعہ نخل”
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