Iraq
Dhi Qar
Nasiriyah District

Ur

Ur is a peak in , and has an elevation of 15 metres. Ur is situated nearby to the village , as well as near the locality .
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  • Type: Peak with an elevation of 15 metres
  • Description: hill in Iraq
  • Also known as: “Mughair”, “Muqayyar”, “Tall al Muqaiyir”, “Tall al Muqayir”, “Tall al Muqayyar”, “Ūr Kildān”, “Ur of the Chaldees”, “Ur, Ūr Kaldān, Ur of the Chaldees, اور کلدان, Ur, Ur Kaldan, Ur of the Chaldees, اور کلدان”, and “اور کلدان”

Places of Interest

Highlights include The ancient city of Ur and Ziggurat of Ur.

Protected area
Photo: lubinski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ur was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , southern . Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the on the , the coastline has shifted and the city is now well inland, on the south bank of the , 16 km southwest of in modern-day Iraq.

Archaeological site
Photo: Hardnfast, CC BY 3.0.
The is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of near , in present-day , . The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age but had crumbled to ruins by the 6th century BC of the Neo-Babylonian period, when it was restored by King Nabonidus.

Ruins
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The is an archaeological site in modern-day in southern . The initial excavations at took place between 1922 and 1934 under the direction of Leonard Woolley in association with the and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.

Ur

Latitude
30.96076° or 30° 57′ 39″ north
Longitude
46.10602° or 46° 6′ 22″ east
Elevation
15 metres (49 feet)
Open location code
8H28X464+8C
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2485672594
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
93199
Wiki­data ID
Q26839571
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Ur” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “أور كلدان”
  • Arabic: “أور”
  • Arabic: “تل مقير”
  • Bengali: “উর”
  • Bosnian: “Ur”
  • Catalan: “Ur”
  • Cebuano: “Tall Muqayyir”
  • Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Czech: “Ur”
  • Danish: “Ur”
  • Dutch: “Ur”
  • Esperanto: “Ur”
  • Finnish: “Ur”
  • French: “Ur”
  • Georgian: “ური”
  • German: “Ur”
  • Greek: “Ουρ”
  • Hebrew: “אור כשדים”
  • Italian: “Ur”
  • Japanese: “ウル”
  • Norwegian: “Ur”
  • Persian: “اور”
  • Polish: “Ur”
  • Portuguese: “Ur”
  • Russian: “Ур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ur”
  • Slovenian: “Ur”
  • Spanish: “Ur”
  • Swedish: “Ur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ур”
  • Urdu: “اُر”

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