Historical place profile
Kawa
Known today as Kawa, ruins of this ancient Egyptian and Kushite settlement are located on the east bank of the Nile river, seven kilometers south of the modern Nile bridge at Dongola in Sudan.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:805647
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:805647
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 19.123131, 30.496606
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Known today as Kawa, ruins of this ancient Egyptian and Kushite settlement are located on the east bank of the Nile river, seven kilometers south of the modern Nile bridge at Dongola in Sudan.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 82 A2 Patinga?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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