Kish

Kish is an important archaeological site in Babil Governorate, located 80 km south of Baghdad and 12 km east of the ancient city of . The Ubaid period site of Ras al-Amiyah is 8 km away.
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Sumerian city
  • Also known as: “assentament sumeri a l’Iraq”, “Kish (Iraque)”, “Kish (Mesopotâmia)”, “Kish (Sumer)”, “Tell Uheimir”, “Кіш (Шумер)”, “تل الأحيمر”, and “كيشاتو”

Kish

Latitude
32.54001° or 32° 32′ 24″ north
Longitude
44.60446° or 44° 36′ 16″ east
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Open location code
8H46GJR3+2Q
Open­Street­Map ID
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
Wiki­data ID
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Uzbek—“Kish” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Kisj”
  • Amharic: “ኪሽ”
  • Arabic: “كيش”
  • Armenian: “Քիշ (Շումեր)”
  • Armenian: “Քիշ”
  • Asturian: “Kish”
  • Azerbaijani: “Kiş”
  • Bashkir: “Киш”
  • Basque: “Kish”
  • Belarusian: “Кіш”
  • Bosnian: “Kish”
  • Bulgarian: “Киш”
  • Burmese: “ကစ်ရှမြို့”
  • Catalan: “Kiš”
  • Catalan: “Kix”
  • Cebuano: “Kīsh”
  • Central Kurdish: “کیش”
  • Chinese: “基什”
  • Chuvash: “Киш”
  • Croatian: “Kiš (Sumer)”
  • Croatian: “Kiš”
  • Croatian: “Kish”
  • Czech: “Kiš”
  • Danish: “Kish”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Kiş”
  • Dutch: “Kiš”
  • Dutch: “Kish”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كيش”
  • Esperanto: “Kiŝ”
  • Finnish: “Kiš”
  • French: “Kish”
  • Galician: “Kish”
  • Georgian: “ქიში”
  • German: “Kiš”
  • German: “Kisch”
  • Hebrew: “כיש”
  • Hindi: “किश”
  • Hungarian: “Kis”
  • Indonesian: “Kiš”
  • Irish: “Kish”
  • Italian: “Kish”
  • Japanese: “キシュ”
  • Korean: “키시”
  • Kurdish: “Kîş”
  • Lithuanian: “Kišas”
  • Mingrelian: “ქიში”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Kisj”
  • Norwegian: “Kisj”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Kish”
  • Persian: “کیش”
  • Polish: “Kisz”
  • Portuguese: “Kish”
  • Portuguese: “Quis”
  • Romanian: “Kiș”
  • Russian: “Киш”
  • Scots: “Kish”
  • Serbian: “Киш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Kiš”
  • Sinhala: “කිෂ්”
  • Slovak: “Kiš”
  • Slovenian: “Kiš”
  • Spanish: “Kish”
  • Swedish: “Kish”
  • Tagalog: “Kish (Sumerya)”
  • Tagalog: “Kish”
  • Tamil: “கிஷ், சுமேரியா”
  • Turkish: “Kiş”
  • Ukrainian: “Кіш”
  • Uzbek: “Kish”

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