Iraq
Kirkuk Governorate
Kirkuk District

Nuzi

Nuzi at modern Yorghan Tepe, was an ancient Mesopotamian city 12 kilometers southwest of the city of and 70 kilometers southwest of Sātu Qala, located near the river.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Mesopotamian city
  • Also known as: “Gasur” and “Yorgan Tepe”

Nuzi

Latitude
35.36991° or 35° 22′ 12″ north
Longitude
44.25497° or 44° 15′ 18″ east
Elevation
269 metres (883 feet)
Open location code
8H769793+XX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 533930506
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
89610
Wiki­data ID
Q584605
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Nuzi” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Nuzi”
  • Arabic: “نوزي”
  • Asturian: “Nuzi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nuzi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Yorqan Təpə”
  • Bashkir: “Нузи”
  • Basque: “Nuzi”
  • Belarusian: “Нузі”
  • Bulgarian: “Нузи”
  • Catalan: “Nuzi”
  • Cebuano: “Nuzi”
  • Dutch: “Nuzi”
  • French: “Nuzi”
  • German: “Nuzi”
  • Hebrew: “נוזי”
  • Hungarian: “Nuzu”
  • Indonesian: “Nuzi”
  • Italian: “Nuzi”
  • Japanese: “ヌジ”
  • Japanese: “ヌツィ”
  • Japanese: “ヨルガン・テペ”
  • Korean: “누지”
  • Kurdish: “Nûzî”
  • Lithuanian: “Nuzis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nuzi”
  • Norwegian: “Nuzi”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Gasur”
  • Persian: “نوزی”
  • Polish: “Nuzi”
  • Portuguese: “Nuzi”
  • Russian: “Нузи”
  • Slovenian: “Nuzi”
  • Spanish: “Nuzi”
  • Swedish: “Nuzi”
  • Turkish: “Nuzi”
  • Turkish: “Yorgantepe”
  • Ukrainian: “Гасур”
  • Ukrainian: “Ґасур”
  • Ukrainian: “Йорган Тепе”
  • Ukrainian: “Йорган-Тепе”
  • Ukrainian: “Нузі”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nuzi”. Photo: Zunkir, CC BY-SA 4.0.