Larsa
Larsa, also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar.- Type: Hill
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as: “Ellasar”, “Królowie Larsy”, “Larag”, “Larak”, “Laraq”, “Sankara”, “Sankarah”, “Sinkara”, “Tall Sankar”, “Tall Sankarah”, “Tell as-Senkereh”, “Телль-эс-Сенкере”, “라락”, and “拉尔沙”
Larsa
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, city-state, and landform
- Location: Nasiriyah District, Dhi Qar, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
31.28164° or 31° 16′ 54″ north
Longitude
45.86477° or 45° 51′ 53″ east
Elevation
9 metres (30 feet)
Open location code
8H377VJ7+MW
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Larsa” goes by many names.
- Amharic: “ላርሳ”
- Arabic: “صنكرة”
- Arabic: “لارسا”
- Asturian: “Larsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Larsa”
- Azerbaijani: “Qədim Larsa”
- Bashkir: “Ларса”
- Basque: “Larsa”
- Belarusian: “Ларса”
- Catalan: “Larsa”
- Cebuano: “Şankarah”
- Central Kurdish: “لارسا”
- Chinese: “拉尔萨”
- Chinese: “拉爾薩”
- Chuvash: “Ларса”
- Czech: “Larsa”
- Dutch: “Larsa”
- Esperanto: “Larsa”
- Finnish: “Larsa”
- French: “Larsa”
- Galician: “Larsa”
- Georgian: “ლარსა”
- German: “Larsa”
- Hebrew: “לרסה”
- Hindi: “लर्सा”
- Hungarian: “Larsza”
- Indonesian: “Larsa”
- Irish: “Larsa”
- Italian: “Larsa”
- Japanese: “ラルサ”
- Korean: “라르사”
- Lithuanian: “Larsa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Larsa”
- Norwegian: “Larsa”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Larsa”
- Persian: “لارسا”
- Polish: “Larsa”
- Portuguese: “Larsa”
- Romanian: “Larsa”
- Russian: “Ларса”
- Serbian: “Ларса”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Larsa”
- Slovak: “Larsa”
- Slovenian: “Larsa”
- Spanish: “Larsa”
- Swedish: “Larsa”
- Tagalog: “Larsa”
- Tamil: “லார்சா”
- Turkish: “Larsa”
- Ukrainian: “Ларса”
- Urdu: “لارسا”
- Vietnamese: “Larsa”
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