Sippar

Sippar was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near in 's , some 69 km north of and 30 km southwest of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Iraq
  • Also known as: Sibiyar”, “Tell Abu Habbah”, and “Zimbir

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Yusufiyah.

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is a regional township in the of .

Sippar

Latitude
33.06667° or 33° 4′ north
Longitude
44.25° or 44° 15′ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
8H563782+M2
Geo­Names ID
90736
Wiki­data ID
Q619707
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sippar” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: Sībīyār
  • Arabic: سيبار
  • Bashkir: Сиппар
  • Basque: Sippar
  • Belarusian: Сіпар
  • Catalan: Sippar
  • Catalan: Zimbir
  • Cebuano: Abu Habba
  • Central Kurdish: سیپار
  • Chinese: 西帕尔
  • Chinese: 辛比爾
  • Croatian: Sipar
  • Croatian: Sippar
  • Czech: Sippar
  • Dutch: Sippar
  • Dutch: Sippara
  • Dutch: Zimber
  • Dutch: Zimbir
  • Esperanto: Sippar
  • Esperanto: Zimbir
  • Finnish: Sippar
  • French: Sippar
  • French: Zimbir
  • Georgian: სიფარი
  • German: Sippar
  • German: Tell Abu Habbah
  • German: Zimbir
  • Hebrew: סיפר
  • Hungarian: Szippar
  • Indonesian: Sipar
  • Irish: Sippar
  • Italian: Sippar
  • Japanese: シッパル
  • Korean: 시파르
  • Korean: 짐비르
  • Latin: Sippara
  • Lithuanian: Siparas
  • Maori: Sippar
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Sippar
  • Norwegian: Sippar
  • Occitan (post 1500): Sippar
  • Persian: سیپار
  • Polish: Sippar
  • Portuguese: Sipar
  • Portuguese: Sippar
  • Portuguese: Tel Abu Haba
  • Romanian: Sippar
  • Russian: Сиппар
  • Serbo-Croatian: Sippar
  • Serbo-Croatian: Zimbir
  • Slovak: Sippar
  • Slovenian: Sipar
  • South Azerbaijani: سیپار
  • Spanish: Sippar
  • Swedish: Sippar
  • Tagalog: Sippar
  • Tamil: சிப்பர்
  • Turkish: Sippar
  • Ukrainian: Сіппар

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