Marawī - Marawī

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Marawī · ‏مروي‎
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Marawī

Marawi or engl. Merowe, Arabic:مروي‎, Marawī, is a small town in North Sudan in the Sudanese State ash-Shamālīya. It is located on the eastern bank of the Nile, about 330 kilometers north of al-Charṭūm and 9 kilometers (as the crow flies) south of the city Karīma. The Wādī al-Ghazalī begins east of the city.

The archaeological site of Sanam in the north of the city is a Unesco World Heritage Site.

background

getting there

City map of Marawī

By plane

In the east of the city is the (new) 1 Merowe AirportMerowe Airport in the Wikipedia encyclopediaMerowe Airport (Q652325) in the Wikidata database(IATA: MWE). In October 2019 there were no scheduled flights to this airport.

By bus

2 Bus stop.

In the street

A 1 Road bridge leads across the Nile. The trunk road leading through the city leads to the north Nūrī and south to Tanqāsī. The trunk road on the west bank of the Nile leads to Karīma and al-Kurru.

By boat

mobility

Tourist Attractions

Plan of the Temple of Amun at Sanam
Amun Temple, looking northwest

Archaeological site

The archaeological site of 2 SanāmSanām in the encyclopedia WikipediaSanām (Q1424316) in the Wikidata database, ‏سنام, In the north of the city is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The most important building is 3 Amun templewho is probably under the king Taharqa was erected. On the area there is still a (not excavated) palace, several buildings of a settlement and around 1,500 graves. The area is fenced. At the fence or from a higher building you can take a look at the temple and the grounds.

Archaeologists suspect this is the secular residential town of Napatawhile on Jebel al-Barkal the sacred center was located.

Mosques

building

  • 5  Jackson house (‏منزل جاكسون باشا‎, Jackson House) (south of the Merowe Touristic Village). Former home of the governor of Dunqula, Sir Herbert William Jackson (1861–1931), which he had built in 1923 after his retirement.[1] The building was made of fired and adobe bricks and consists of three rooms. There is also an oven in a side room. Part of the roof area serves as a terrace. The house was part of an estate.(18 ° 28 ′ 25 ″ N.31 ° 48 ′ 33 ″ E)

Wādī al-Ghazalī

It starts in the east of the city Wādī al-Ghazalī, in which after about 28 kilometers the Wādī Abū Daum, also Wādī Abū Dōm, ‏وادى أبو دوم, Coming from the southeast, joins. You can also get to through the wadi Meroë.

There are several places of interest in Wādī al-Ghazalī:

  • 6  ʿAyn al-Ghazalī. There are several buildings north of the source.(18 ° 26 '47 "N.31 ° 55 ′ 54 ″ E)
  • 7  Ghazalī monastery. 13 kilometers east of Marawī, not far from ʿAin al-Ghazalī, are the remains of a monastery, which included a basilica. The monastery was visited by the Lepsius expedition (around 1850), which had tombstones brought to Berlin. Excavations were carried out by P. L. Shinnie and H. N. Chittick in 1953–1954.(18 ° 26 ′ 31 ″ N.31 ° 55 ′ 53 ″ E)
  • 8  al-Ghazalī oasis(18 ° 24 '23 "N.31 ° 59 ′ 24 ″ E)
  • 9  fortress. The fortress is located north of the al-Ghazalī oasis on a wadi that joins the Wādī al-Ghazalī when coming from the north.(18 ° 24 '42 "N.31 ° 59 ′ 19 ″ E)
  • 10  fortress. Another fortress is located 28 kilometers from Marawī at the confluence of the Wādī Abū Dūm.(18 ° 24 ′ 31 ″ N.32 ° 2 ′ 51 ″ E)

activities

shop

kitchen

accommodation

  • 1  Merowe Touristic Village (‏قرية مروي السياحية‎). Tel.: 249 (0)12 340 1636, (0)99 1284 2006, Email: . Large holiday complex in the south of the small town with a mosque, restaurant and sports facilities. Several two-story buildings in which the guest rooms are located are arranged around a large lawn. The rooms have a TV, air conditioning and bathroom with shower.(18 ° 28 ′ 30 ″ N.31 ° 48 ′ 39 ″ E)last change: Jan. 2019

health

Learn

There is a branch of the in Marawī 3 Omdurman Islamic UniversityOmdurman Islamic University in the Wikipedia encyclopediaOmdurman Islamic University (Q7089955) in the Wikidata database, ‏جامعة أم درمان الاسلامية‎.

Practical advice

trips

Merowe Dam
  • The city is namesake of the 11 Merowe DamMerowe Dam in the Wikipedia encyclopediaMerowe Dam in the Wikimedia Commons media directoryMerowe Dam (Q1921988) in the Wikidata database, which is northeast of Karīma is located.

literature

Sanam

  • Griffith, F. Ll.: Oxford Excavations in Nubia VIII-XVII, Napata, Sanam Temple, Treasury and Town. In:Liverpool Annals of Archeology and Anthropology, Vol.9 (1922), Pp. 67-124.
  • Kendall, Timothy: Sanam. In:Bard, Kathryn A. (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Archeology of Ancient Egypt. London, New York: Routledge, 1999, ISBN 978-0-415-18589-9 , Pp. 690-691.
  • Lohwasser, Angelika: Aspects of Napatan society: archaeological inventory and funeral practice in the Sanam cemetery. Vienna: Verl. Of the Austrian Academy of Sciences., 2012, Memoranda of the whole academy / Austrian academy of sciences; 67, ISBN 978-3-7001-7003-7 .

Al-Ghazali

  • Shinnie, P.L .; Chittick, H. N.: Ghazali: a monastery in the Northern Sudan. Khartoum [et al.]: Comm. for Archeology [and others], 1961, Occasional papers / Sudan Antiquities Service; 5.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑Hill, Richard (Ed.): A biographical dictionary of the Sudan. London: Frank Cass, 1967 (2nd edition), P. 188 f.
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