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ID: 8711897
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8711897
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Thinis (lost settlement)  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:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Africa (continent)  ....  Africa (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Egypt (nation)  ........  Egypt (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Sūhāj (governorate)  ............  Sūhāj (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of lost & found/Sūhāj (miscellaneous)  ................  lost & found/Sūhāj (miscellaneous) (P)
Hierarchy of Thinis (lost settlement)  ....................  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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