Egypt
Deir el-Munira ranks #8,924 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #36 of the 36 mapped in Egypt. 1 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. See how Egypt compares in the castle statistics.
Deir el-Munira, also called Hisn al-Deir or Deir al-Ghanayim, is an archaeological site about 23 km north of the city of Kharga and 3 km east of the village of El-Munira. The site includes a Roman fort that is among the largest Roman forts in the Kharga Oasis, built to guard the main desert road towards Farshut and the Nile Valley. The site also includes a Roman temple of mud brick close to the fort.
Machine-translated from “دير المنيرة” on the Arabic Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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