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.
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  • Type: Hill
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: Sankara”, “Sankarah”, “Tall Sankar”, “Tall Sankarah”, and “Tell as-Senkereh

Larsa

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
Geo­Names ID
91560
Wiki­data ID
Q244746
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Larsa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: ላርሳ
  • Arabic: صنكرة
  • Arabic: لارسا
  • Azerbaijani: Larsa
  • Azerbaijani: Qədim Larsa
  • Bashkir: Ларса
  • Bashkir: Телль-эс-Сенкере
  • Basque: Larsa
  • Belarusian: Ларса
  • Catalan: Laraq
  • Catalan: Larsa
  • Cebuano: Şankarah
  • Chinese: 拉尔沙
  • 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: Ellasar
  • German: Larsa
  • Hebrew: לרסה
  • Hindi: लार्सा
  • Hungarian: Larsza
  • Indonesian: Larsa
  • Irish: Larsa
  • Italian: Ellasar
  • Italian: Larsa
  • Japanese: ラルサ
  • Korean: 라락
  • Korean: 라르사
  • Lithuanian: Larsa
  • Norwegian Bokmål: Larsa
  • Norwegian: Larsa
  • Occitan (post 1500): Larsa
  • Persian: لارسا
  • Polish: Królowie Larsy
  • Polish: Larsa
  • Polish: Sinkara
  • Portuguese: Larsa
  • Romanian: Larsa
  • Russian: Ларса
  • Serbian: Ларса
  • Serbo-Croatian: Larag
  • Serbo-Croatian: Larsa
  • Slovak: Larsa
  • Slovenian: Larsa
  • Spanish: Ellasar
  • Spanish: Larak
  • Spanish: Larsa
  • Swedish: Larsa
  • Tagalog: Larsa
  • Tamil: லார்சா
  • Turkish: Larsa
  • Ukrainian: Ларса
  • Vietnamese: Larsa

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