Tell Brak

Tell Brak was an ancient city in ; it is one of the earliest known cities in the world. Its remains constitute a tell located in the Upper Khabur region, near the modern village of Tell Brak, 50 kilometers north-east of Al-Hasaka city, Al-Hasakah Governorate.
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  • Archaeological site
  • …lies at an elevation of 337 metres (1,106 feet)
  • Description: Archaeological site in Syria
  • Also known as
    “Nagar”
    “Nawar”
    “Tall Birak”
    “Temple of the Eye”

Tell Brak

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Latitude
36.66729° or 36° 40′ 2″ north
Longitude
41.05861° or 41° 3′ 31″ east
Open location code
8H83M385+WC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 232286478
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Geo­Names ID
163608
Wiki­data ID
Q978443

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Urdu—“Tell Brak” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Tell Brak”
  • Amharic: “ናጋር”
  • Arabic: “تل براك”
  • Bashkir: “Нагар”
  • Bashkir: “Телль-Брак”
  • Bashkir: “Тель-Брак”
  • Bulgarian: “Тел Брак”
  • Catalan: “Tell Brak”
  • Cebuano: “Tall Birāk”
  • Central Kurdish: “گر بەراک”
  • Chinese: “布拉克墟丘”
  • Chinese: “特尔布拉克”
  • Chinese: “特爾布拉克”
  • Czech: “Tell Brak”
  • Danish: “Nagar”
  • Dutch: “Nagar”
  • Dutch: “Tell Brak”
  • Finnish: “Tell Brak”
  • French: “Nagar”
  • French: “Tell Brak”
  • German: “Nagar”
  • German: “Tell Brak”
  • Hebrew: “נגר”
  • Hebrew: “נוואר”
  • Hebrew: “תל ברק”
  • Italian: “Tell Brak”
  • Japanese: “テル・ブラク”
  • Korean: “나가르”
  • Lithuanian: “Nagaras”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tell Brak”
  • Persian: “تل براک”
  • Polish: “Tell Brak”
  • Portuguese: “Tell Brak”
  • Russian: “Тель-Брак”
  • Slovenian: “Tell Brak”
  • South Azerbaijani: “تل براک”
  • Spanish: “Nagar”
  • Spanish: “Tell Brak”
  • Swedish: “Tall Birāk”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠉꠞ (ꠔꠦꠟ ꠛ꠆ꠞꠇ)”
  • Sylheti: “ꠘꠉꠞ”
  • Tamil: “டெல் பராக்”
  • Turkish: “Tell Brak”
  • Urdu: “تل براک”

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