Sippar
Sippar was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some 69 km north of Babylon and 30 km southwest of Baghdad.- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Sibiyar”, “Tel Abu Haba”, “Tell Abu Habbah”, “Zimber”, “Zimbir”, and “짐비르”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yusufiyah.
Sippar
- Categories: human settlement, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Mahmudiya District, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
33.06667° or 33° 4′ north
Longitude
44.25° or 44° 15′ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Open location code
8H563782+M2
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Urdu—“Sippar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “Sībīyār”
- Arabic: “سيبار”
- Asturian: “Sippar”
- Bashkir: “Сиппар”
- Basque: “Sippar”
- Belarusian: “Сіпар”
- Catalan: “Sippar”
- Cebuano: “Abu Habba”
- Central Kurdish: “سیپار”
- Chinese: “西帕尔”
- Chinese: “辛比爾”
- Croatian: “Sipar”
- Czech: “Sippar”
- Dutch: “Sippar”
- Esperanto: “Sippar”
- Finnish: “Sippar”
- French: “Sippar”
- Georgian: “სიფარი”
- German: “Sippar”
- Hebrew: “סיפר”
- Hindi: “सिप्पर”
- Hungarian: “Szippar”
- Indonesian: “Sipar”
- Irish: “Sippar”
- Italian: “Sippar”
- Japanese: “シッパル”
- Korean: “시파르”
- Latin: “Sippara”
- Lithuanian: “Siparas”
- Maori: “Sippar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sippar”
- Norwegian: “Sippar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sippar”
- Persian: “سیپار”
- Polish: “Sippar”
- Portuguese: “Sipar”
- Romanian: “Sippar”
- Russian: “Сиппар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sippar”
- Slovak: “Sippar”
- Slovenian: “Sipar”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیپار”
- Spanish: “Sippar”
- Swedish: “Sippar”
- Tagalog: “Sippar”
- Tamil: “சிப்பர்”
- Turkish: “Sippar”
- Ukrainian: “Сіппар”
- Urdu: “سیپار”
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