Nippur

Nippur was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind", ruler of the cosmos, subject to An alone.
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 21 metres (69 feet)
  • Description: ancient city in modern day Iraq
  • Also known as
    “Atlal Nafar”
    “Atlāl Nufar”
    “Niffar”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Afak.
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is a town in , . is situated 7 km south of Nippur.

Nippur

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Latitude
32.12614° or 32° 7′ 34″ north
Longitude
45.23086° or 45° 13′ 51″ east
Open location code
8H4746GJ+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7316513646
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
92882
Wiki­data ID
Q188395

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Nippur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Nippur”
  • Akkadian: “Nibbur”
  • Amharic: “ኒፑር”
  • Arabic: “اطلال نفر”
  • Arabic: “نفر”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nippur”
  • Bashkir: “Нибру”
  • Bashkir: “Ниппур”
  • Bashkir: “Нуффар”
  • Basque: “Nippur”
  • Belarusian: “Ніпур”
  • Bengali: “নিপপুর”
  • Bulgarian: “Нипур”
  • Catalan: “Nippur”
  • Cebuano: “Aţlāl Nafar”
  • Chinese: “尼帕”
  • Chinese: “尼普尔”
  • Chinese: “尼普爾”
  • Chuvash: “Ниппур”
  • Croatian: “Nippur”
  • Croatian: “Nipur”
  • Czech: “Nibbur”
  • Czech: “Nibru”
  • Czech: “Nippur”
  • Danish: “Nippur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Nippur”
  • Dutch: “Nippoer”
  • Dutch: “Nippur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “نفر”
  • Esperanto: “Nippur”
  • Finnish: “Nippur”
  • French: “Nippour”
  • French: “Nippur”
  • Galician: “Nippur”
  • Georgian: “ნიპური”
  • Georgian: “ნიფური”
  • German: “Nibbur”
  • German: “Nibru”
  • German: “Nippur”
  • Greek: “Νιπούρ”
  • Greek: “Νίπουρ”
  • Hebrew: “ניפור”
  • Hindi: “निप्पुर”
  • Hungarian: “Nippur”
  • Icelandic: “Nippur”
  • Indonesian: “Nibru”
  • Italian: “Nippur”
  • Japanese: “ニップール”
  • Japanese: “ニップル”
  • Kazakh: “Nïppwr”
  • Kazakh: “Ниппур”
  • Kazakh: “نىيپپۋر”
  • Korean: “니푸르”
  • Kurdish: “Nîppûr”
  • Latvian: “Nipūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Nipūras”
  • Macedonian: “Нипур”
  • Malayalam: “നിപൂർ”
  • Mingrelian: “ნიფური”
  • Newari: “निप्पुर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Nippur”
  • Norwegian: “Nippur”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Nippur”
  • Persian: “نیپ‌پور”
  • Persian: “نیپور”
  • Polish: “Nibru”
  • Polish: “Nippur”
  • Portuguese: “Nippur”
  • Portuguese: “Nipur”
  • Romanian: “Nippur”
  • Russian: “Ниппур”
  • Scots: “Nippur”
  • Serbian: “Нипур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nippur”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Nipur”
  • Sinhala: “නිප්පූර්”
  • Slovak: “Nippur”
  • Slovenian: “Nipur”
  • South Azerbaijani: “نیپور”
  • Spanish: “Nippur”
  • Spanish: “Nipur”
  • Sumerian: “Nibru”
  • Swedish: “Nippur”
  • Tagalog: “Nippur”
  • Tamil: “நிப்பூர்”
  • Thai: “นิปปูร์”
  • Turkish: “Nippur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ніппур”
  • Urdu: “نیپور”
  • Uzbek: “Nippur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Nippur”
  • Wu Chinese: “尼普尔”
  • “𒂗𒇸”

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