Eridu
Eridu was a Sumerian city located at Tell Abu Shahrain, also Abu Shahrein or Tell Abu Shahrayn, an archaeological site in Lower Mesopotamia. It is located in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq, near the modern city of Basra.- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 19 metres (62 feet)
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as“Abu Shahrain”“Tall Aridu”“Tell Abu Shahrain”“مدينة أريدو”
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Latitude
30.82584° or 30° 49′ 33″ north
Longitude
45.99486° or 45° 59′ 42″ east
Open location code
8H27RXGV+8W
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OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Eridu” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Eridu”
- Amharic: “ኤሪዱ”
- Arabic: “إريدو”
- Arabic: “اريدو”
- Arabic: “تل اريدو”
- Armenian: “Էրեդու, Էրիդուգ, Ուրուդուգ”
- Armenian: “Էրիդու”
- Azerbaijani: “Eredu”
- Basque: “Eridu”
- Bulgarian: “Ериду”
- Catalan: “Eridu”
- Catalan: “Èridu”
- Cebuano: “Tall Arīdū”
- Chinese: “埃利都”
- Chinese: “埃里都”
- Croatian: “Eridu”
- Czech: “Eridu”
- Danish: “Eridu”
- Danish: “Tell Abu Shahrain”
- Dimli (individual language): “Eridu”
- Dutch: “Eridoe”
- Dutch: “Eridu”
- Esperanto: “Eridu”
- Finnish: “Eridu”
- French: “Eridou”
- French: “Eridu”
- Galician: “Eridu”
- Georgian: “ერიდუ”
- German: “Abu Schachren”
- German: “Eridu”
- German: “Tell Abu Schachren”
- German: “Tell Abu-Schahrein”
- Greek: “Εριντού”
- Hebrew: “ארידו”
- Hungarian: “Eridu”
- Indonesian: “Eridu”
- Italian: “Eridu”
- Japanese: “エリドゥ”
- Korean: “에리두”
- Korean: “에리두그”
- Kurdish: “Erîdû”
- Latvian: “Eridu”
- Lithuanian: “Eridu”
- Mingrelian: “ერიდუ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Eridu”
- Norwegian: “Eridu”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Eridu”
- Persian: “اریدو”
- Polish: “Eredu”
- Polish: “Eridu”
- Portuguese: “Eridu”
- Portuguese: “Eridug”
- Romanian: “Eridu”
- Russian: “Абу Шахрейн”
- Russian: “Эреду”
- Russian: “Эриду”
- Serbian: “Eridu”
- Serbian: “Ериду”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eridu”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Eridug”
- Slovak: “Eridu”
- Slovenian: “Eridu”
- Slovenian: “Tel Abu Šahrajn”
- South Azerbaijani: “اریدو”
- Spanish: “Abu Shahrein”
- Spanish: “Eridu”
- Spanish: “Eridú”
- Spanish: “Tell Abu Shahrein”
- Swedish: “Eridu”
- Tagalog: “Eridu”
- Tamil: “எரிது”
- Turkish: “Eridu”
- Ukrainian: “Еріду”
- Urdu: “اریدو”
- Wu Chinese: “埃利都”
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