Ur

Ur is a village in , . Ur is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include The ancient city of Ur and Ziggurat of Ur.

Protected area
Photo: lubinski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , . Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the on the , the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the , 16 km southwest of the city of .

Archaeological site
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The is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of near , in present-day , . The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age by King Ur-Nammu of the Third Dynasty of Ur. is situated 2½ km west of Ur.

Ruins
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The is an archaeological site in modern-day in southern . The initial excavations at took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Ur

Latitude
30.95611° or 30° 57′ 22″ north
Longitude
46.12778° or 46° 7′ 40″ east
Elevation
4 metres (13 feet)
Open location code
8H28X44H+C4
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2487954997
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
89788
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “Ūr”
  • Arabic: “تقاطع أور”
  • Belarusian: “Ур”
  • Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Czech: “Ur”
  • French: “Ur”
  • German: “Ur”
  • Greek: “Ουρ”
  • Hebrew: “אור”
  • Japanese: “ウル”
  • Korean: “우르”
  • Polish: “Ur”
  • Russian: “Ур”
  • Serbian: “Ур”
  • Spanish: “Ur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ур”
  • Vietnamese: “Ur”

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