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Shalfak

a Pleiades place resource

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A Middle Kingdom fortress that was originally located on the Nile's west bank at the Second Cataract of the Nile River. The ruins of the fortress are now situated on an island in Lake Nubia in northern Sudan.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/665675512

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
21.5416359028, 31.0401517388

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Shalfak (2010 BC - 1640 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Place type:
fort

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Shalfak: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/665675512> [accessed: 26 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/665675512 |title=Places: 665675512 (Shalfak) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 26, 2024 7:03 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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