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.- Hill
- …rises to around 10 metres (30 feet)
- Description: human settlement
- Also known as“Sankara”“Sankarah”“Tall Sankar”“Tall Sankarah”“Tell as-Senkereh”
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Latitude
31.28164° or 31° 16′ 54″ north
Longitude
45.86477° or 45° 51′ 53″ east
Open location code
8H377VJ7+MW
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In Other Languages
From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Larsa” goes by many names.
ላርሳAmharic
صنكرةArabic
لارساArabic
LarsaAsturian
LarsaAzerbaijani
Qədim LarsaAzerbaijani
ЛарсаBashkir
Телль-эс-СенкереBashkir
LarsaBasque
ЛарсаBelarusian
LaraqCatalan
LarsaCatalan
ŞankarahCebuano
لارساCentral Kurdish
拉尔沙Chinese
拉尔萨Chinese
拉爾薩Chinese
ЛарсаChuvash
LarsaCzech
LarsaDutch
LarsaEsperanto
LarsaFinnish
LarsaGalician
ლარსაGeorgian
לרסהHebrew
लर्साHindi
LarszaHungarian
LarsaIndonesian
LarsaIrish
EllasarItalian
LarsaItalian
ラルサJapanese
라락Korean
라르사Korean
LarsaLithuanian
LarsaNorwegian
LarsaNorwegian Bokmål
LarsaOccitan (post 1500)
لارساPersian
Królowie LarsyPolish
LarsaPolish
SinkaraPolish
LarsaRomanian
ЛарсаRussian
ЛарсаSerbian
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