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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Abu Shahrain”, “Tall Aridu”, and “Tell Abu Shahrain”
Eridu
- Categories: ancient city, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Muthanna Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
30.82584° or 30° 49′ 33″ northLongitude
45.99486° or 45° 59′ 42″ eastElevation
19 metres (62 feet)Open location code
8H27RXGV+8WOpenStreetMap ID
way 694065002OpenStreetMap 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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