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{{Infobox settlement <!--See the Table at Infobox Settlement for all fields and descriptions of usage--> <!-- Basic info ---------------->| name = Dendera | other_name = {{lang|ar|دندرة}} | native_name = {{lang|cop|{{Script/Coptic|ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ}}}}<br>{{lang|cop|{{Script/Coptic|ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ}}}} | nickname = | settlement_type = [[List of cities and towns in Egypt|City]] | image_skyline = {{Photomontage | photo1a = Denderah Outside.JPG | photo2a = Dendera Tempelkomplex 02.JPG | photo2b = Дендера.jpg | photo3a = DenderaHathorTempleComplexQenaEgypt622-2007feb10PhotoByCsorfolyDaniel.JPG | photo3b = Dendera Mammisi Nektanebos I. 02.JPG | size = 275 | spacing = 2 | color = transparent | border = 0 }} | image_caption = '''Clockwise from top:''' <br> Entrance to Dendara Temple, Dendara Temple Complex, Inside Hathor Temple, Hathor Temple Complex | image_flag = | flag_size = | image_seal = | seal_size = | image_shield = | shield_size = | image_map = | mapsize = | map_caption = | pushpin_map = Egypt<!-- the name of a location map as per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Location_map --> | pushpin_relief = yes | pushpin_label_position = bottom | pushpin_mapsize = 300 | pushpin_map_caption = Location in Egypt <!-- Location ------------------>| subdivision_type = Country | subdivision_name = {{flag|Egypt}} | subdivision_type1 = [[Governorates of Egypt|Governorate]] | subdivision_name1 = [[Qena Governorate|Qena]] | subdivision_type2 = | subdivision_name2 = | subdivision_type3 = | subdivision_name3 = |<!-- Politics -----------------> | government_footnotes = | government_type = | leader_title = | leader_name = | leader_title1 = <!-- for places with, say, both a mayor and a city manager --> | leader_name1 = | established_title = <!-- Settled --> | established_date = <!-- Area ---------------------> | area_magnitude = | unit_pref = Imperial <!--Enter: Imperial, if Imperial (metric) is desired--> | area_footnotes = | area_total_km2 = <!-- ALL fields dealing with a measurements are subject to automatic unit conversion--> | area_land_km2 = <!--See table @ Template:Infobox Settlement for details on automatic unit conversion--> <!-- Population ----------------------->| population_as_of = | population_footnotes = | population_note = | population_total = | population_density_km2 = | population_density_sq_mi = | population_metro = | population_density_metro_km2 = | population_density_metro_sq_mi = | population_blank1_title = Ethnicities | population_blank1 = | population_density_blank1_km2 = | population_density_blank1_sq_mi = <!-- General information ---------------> | timezone = [[Egypt Standard Time|EST]] | utc_offset = +2 | timezone_DST = | utc_offset_DST = | coordinates = {{coord|26|10|05|N|32|39|22|E|region:EG|display=inline,title}} | elevation_footnotes = <!--for references: use <ref> </ref> tags--> | elevation_m = | elevation_ft = <!-- Area/postal codes & others --------> | postal_code_type = <!-- enter ZIP code, Postcode, Post code, Postal code... --> | postal_code = | area_code = | blank_name = | blank_info = | blank1_name = | blank1_info = | website = | footnotes = }} '''Dendera''' ({{langx|ar|دَنْدَرة}} ''Dandarah''; {{langx|grc|Τέντυρις or Τέντυρα}}; [[Bohairic]] {{langx|cop|ⲛⲓⲧⲉⲛⲧⲱⲣⲓ|translit=Nitentōri}}; Sahidic {{langx|cop|ⲛⲓⲧⲛⲧⲱⲣⲉ|translit=Nitntōre}}),<ref name = Gauthier23>{{cite book |last1=Gauthier |first1=Henri |title=Dictionnaire des Noms Géographiques Contenus dans les Textes Hiéroglyphiques Vol. 6 |date=1929 |page=23 |url=https://archive.org/details/Gauthier1929/page/n13}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Tentyris (Dendera) |url=https://www.trismegistos.org/place/2312 |website=Trismegistos |access-date=29 March 2020}}</ref> also spelled ''Denderah'', ancient '''Iunet 𓉺𓈖𓏏𓊖''' “jwn.t”,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/594810 |title=Iunet (Dendera) |author=Philae-Data |work=ancientworlds.net |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517064227/http://ancientworlds.net/aw/Places/Place/594810 |archive-date=2008-05-17 }}</ref> '''Tentyris'''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.blonline.nl/entries/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum/tentyris-denderah-corpus-34-1607-1622-a34_1607_1622?s.num=7&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum&s.q=tei_concordance%3A%22A.+Bernand%2C+Portes+Passim%22|archive-url=https://archive.today/20140304204402/http://www.blonline.nl/entries/supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum/tentyris-denderah-corpus-34-1607-1622-a34_1607_1622?s.num=7&s.f.s2_parent=s.f.book.supplementum-epigraphicum-graecum&s.q=tei_concordance:%22A.+Bernand,+Portes+Passim%22|url-status=dead|archive-date=2014-03-04|title=Linguistic Bibliography|work=blonline.nl}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://metmuseum.org/collections/search-the-collections/261822|title=Félix Teynard - Dendérah (Tentyris), Temple d'Athôr - Face Postérieure - Cléopatre et Cæsarion - The Metropolitan Museum of Art|work=metmuseum.org}}</ref>,(Arabic: Ewan-t إيوان-ة ),<ref>{{ cite book|last=Hawas|first=Zahi|title=مخطوط معجم اللغة المصرية القديمة احمد كمال كمال. الجزء االثاني عشر|language=Arabic|year=2002|publisher=Al-maǧlis al-aʿlá li-l-aṯār, high council of antiquities|place=Cairo|pages=496|isbn=9773053474|quote=}}</ref> or '''Tentyra'''<ref>In old sources such as [[Giovanni Battista Belzoni|Belzoni]].</ref> is a small town and former bishopric in [[Egypt]] situated on the west bank of the [[Nile]], about {{Convert|5|km|0}} south of [[Qena]], on the opposite side of the river. It is located approximately {{Convert|60|km|0}} north of [[Luxor]] and remains a Latin Catholic [[titular see]]. It contains the [[Dendera Temple complex]], one of the best-preserved temple sites from ancient [[Upper Egypt]].
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