Shanidar Cave
Shanidar Cave is an archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: archaeological site
- Also known as: “Shāná Dar”, “Shanadar”, “Shānadar”, “Shanadar Cave”, “Shaneder Cave”, “Shanī Dar”, “Shānidar”, and “شاندر”
Shanidar Cave
- Categories: cave, archaeological site, and locality
- Location: Mergasor District, Erbil Governorate, Iraqi Kurdistan, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.80035° or 36° 48′ 1″ northLongitude
44.24566° or 44° 14′ 44″ eastElevation
517 metres (1,696 feet)Open location code
8H86R62W+47OpenStreetMap ID
node 9500642519OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Shanidar Cave” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Shanidar-grot”
- Arabic: “شانى در”
- Arabic: “كهف شاندر”
- Armenian: “Շանիդար”
- Azerbaijani: “Şanidar mağarası”
- Belarusian: “Шанідар”
- Catalan: “Shanidar”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەشكەتی شانەدەر”
- Central Kurdish: “ئەشکەوتی شانەدەر”
- Central Kurdish: “شانەدەر”
- Chinese: “沙尼达尔洞穴”
- Chinese: “沙尼達爾洞穴”
- Chinese: “薩尼達洞穴”
- Czech: “Šanídár”
- Czech: “Šánidar”
- Dimli (individual language): “Şikefta Şaneder”
- Dutch: “Shanidargrot”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كهف شانيدار”
- Esperanto: “Shanidar”
- Finnish: “Shanidar”
- French: “Shanidar”
- Galician: “Shanidar”
- German: “Schanidar-Hōhle”
- German: “Schanidar”
- German: “Shanidar-Hole”
- German: “Shanidar”
- Hebrew: “מערת שנידאר”
- Hungarian: “Sanidár barlang”
- Hungarian: “Sanidár-barlang”
- Hungarian: “Shanidar cave”
- Italian: “Shanidar”
- Japanese: “シャニダール洞窟”
- Kurdish: “Şaneder”
- Kurdish: “Shaneder”
- Kurdish: “Shanî Der”
- Kurdish: “Shanidar”
- Kurdish: “شانەدەر”
- Kurdish: “شانى دەر”
- Latin: “Spelunca Šanīdar”
- Lithuanian: “Šanidaras”
- Malayalam: “ഷാനിദാർ ഗുഹ”
- Marathi: “शानिदार गुहा”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanidar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Shanidarhulen”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Shanidargrotta”
- Norwegian: “Shanidar”
- Persian: “غار شانهدر”
- Polish: “Szanidar”
- Portuguese: “Caverna de Xanidar”
- Portuguese: “Caverna Shanidar”
- Russian: “Шанидар”
- Serbian: “Šanidar”
- Serbian: “Шанидар”
- Slovak: “Šáná Dar”
- Slovak: “Šanídár”
- Slovak: “Šánidar”
- Slovak: “Šánídár”
- Slovak: “Shanidar”
- Slovenian: “Šanidar”
- Spanish: “Cueva de Shanidar”
- Swedish: “Shanidar”
- Turkish: “Şanidar Mağarası”
- Ukrainian: “Шанидар”
- Ukrainian: “Шанідар”
- Urdu: “شانہ در غار”
- Uzbek: “Shanidar”
- Welsh: “Shanidar”
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