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ID: 8711897
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711897
Record Type:
administrative
Thinis (lost settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 26 20 00 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 26.3330
decimal degrees
Long: 031 54 00 E
degrees minutes
Long: 31.9000
decimal degrees
Note:
The capital of the eighth "nome" of Upper Egypt. Its exact location is still unknown, though it is generally believed to be on or near present-day Girga.
Names:
Thinis
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Tjeny
(
C
,
V
)
This
(
C
,
V
)
Thin
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Africa
(continent) (
P
)
........
Egypt
(nation) (
P
)
............
Sūhāj
(governorate) (
P
)
................
lost & found/Sūhāj
(miscellaneous) (
P
)
....................
Thinis
(lost settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
lost settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....
Jirjā
.......... (inhabited place)
..............................
(World, Africa, Egypt, Sūhāj) [1095524]
Sources and Contributors:
Thin..........
[
VP
]
...........
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 5 March 2020
Thinis..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
.................
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 5 March 2020
.................
The Nile, National Geographic (1995)
map supplement
This..........
[
VP
]
...........
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 5 March 2020
Tjeny..........
[
VP
]
..............
The Nile, National Geographic (1995)
map supplement
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2015-)
accessed 26 October 2017
..................
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 5 March 2020
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Pleiades (2006-)
accessed 5 March 2020
..........
Ryholt and Jacobsen, Political Situation in Egypt (1997)
163
..........
Strudwick, Texts from the Pyramid Age (2010)
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