Erech

Uruk, the archeological site known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East or West Asia, located east of the current bed of the River, on an ancient, now-dried channel of the river in , Iraq.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia
  • Also known as: “Akkadian Uruk”, “Al-Warka”, “Auruk”, “Cultura Uruk”, “Eanna”, “Érec”, “Èrec”, “Ereh”, “Erek”, “Erekh”, “Ereque”, “Ereš”, “Eresch”, “Irigal”, “Kulaba”, “Kullab”, “Nufedschi”, “Oeroek”, “Orékh”, “Orkhóē”, “Ōrúgeia”, “Ourouk”, “Tall al Warkā’”, “Tel al Warka”, “Unug”, “Unugue”, “Uruk”, “Uruk-Warka”, “Varka”, “Warka”, “Warqa”, “Ерех”, “Урукский период”, “Урукскі перыяд”, “Эрех”, “ურუკი”, “אורוכ”, “أرك”, “أوروك”, “ارك”, “اور وک”, “اورك”, “اوروك”, “ኡሩክ”, “ዋርካ፥ ኢራቅ”, “এরেক”, “এরেখ”, “ঔরুক”, “에렉”, “에릭”, “우룩”, “우르크”, and “烏魯克城”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Ziggurat of Uruk.

Place of worship
The Anu ziggurat is a ziggurat in the city of Uruk. is situated 220 metres northeast of Erech.

Erech

Latitude
31.32334° or 31° 19′ 24″ north
Longitude
45.63833° or 45° 38′ 18″ east
Elevation
12 metres (39 feet)
Open location code
8H378JFQ+88
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1046022673
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
90377
Wiki­data ID
Q168518
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Erech” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Uruk”
  • Albanian: “Uruk”
  • Amharic: “ኦሬክ”
  • Arabic: “الوركاء”
  • Arabic: “تل الوركاء”
  • Arabic: “وركاء”
  • Armenian: “Ուրուկ”
  • Asturian: “Uruk”
  • Basque: “Uruk”
  • Belarusian: “Урук”
  • Bengali: “উরুক”
  • Bosnian: “Uruk”
  • Bulgarian: “Урук”
  • Catalan: “Uruk”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئورووک”
  • Chinese: “乌鲁克”
  • Chinese: “烏魯克”
  • Chuvash: “Урук”
  • Croatian: “Uruk”
  • Czech: “Uruk”
  • Danish: “Uruk”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Uruk”
  • Dutch: “Uruk”
  • Esperanto: “Uruk”
  • Estonian: “Uruk”
  • Finnish: “Uruk”
  • French: “Uruk”
  • Galician: “Uruk”
  • Georgian: “ურუქი”
  • German: “Uruk”
  • Greek: “Ουρούκ”
  • Hebrew: “ארך”
  • Hindi: “उरुक”
  • Hungarian: “Uruk”
  • Icelandic: “Úrúk”
  • Ido: “Uruk”
  • Indonesian: “Uruk”
  • Irish: “Uruk”
  • Italian: “Uruk”
  • Japanese: “ウルク”
  • Korean: “우루크”
  • Kurdish: “Urûk”
  • Kurdish: “ئورووک”
  • Latin: “Orchoe”
  • Latin: “Orchoë”
  • Latvian: “Urūka”
  • Lithuanian: “Urukas”
  • Macedonian: “Урук”
  • Malagasy: “Oroka”
  • Mingrelian: “ურუქი”
  • Newari: “उरुक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Uruk”
  • Norwegian: “Uruk”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Uruk”
  • Persian: “اوروک”
  • Polish: “Uruk”
  • Portuguese: “Uruk”
  • Portuguese: “Uruque”
  • Romanian: “Uruk”
  • Russian: “Урук”
  • Sardinian: “Uruk”
  • Scots: “Uruk”
  • Serbian: “Uruk”
  • Serbian: “Урук”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Uruk”
  • Slovak: “Uruk”
  • Slovenian: “Uruk”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوروک”
  • Spanish: “Uruk”
  • Swahili: “Uruk”
  • Swedish: “Uruk”
  • Swiss German: “Uruk”
  • Tagalog: “Uruk”
  • Tamil: “உரூக்”
  • Thai: “อูรุก”
  • Turkish: “Uruk”
  • Ukrainian: “Урук”
  • Urdu: “اوروک”
  • Vietnamese: “Uruk”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Uruk”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌鲁克”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏魯克”
  • “Uruk”

Localities in the Area

Places to explore: Akkadian Uruk and Nahr as Sayh.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: عبد العباس جولان and نهاية بوري ٤ انج. ٧.

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