Ugarit
Ugarit was an ancient Levantine coastal city located in what is today northern Syria, at a site known in Arabic as Ras Shamra or Tell Shamra. Since its discovery in 1928, the site has revealed the oldest known systematic use of an alphabet.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 23 metres (75 feet)
- Description: ancient port city in northern Syria
- Also known as“Ra’s ash Shamrah”“Ra’s Shamra”“Ra’s Shamrah”“Râs Chamra”“Ūghārīt”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cotes D’Azure Resort.
Cotes D’Azure Resort
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Nearby places include Latakia.
Ugarit
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Latitude
35.60195° or 35° 36′ 7″ north
Longitude
35.78541° or 35° 47′ 8″ east
Open location code
8G7QJQ2P+Q5
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ugarit” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Oegarit”
- Albanian: “Ugarit”
- Arabic: “أوغاريت”
- Arabic: “اوغاريت”
- Arabic: “رأس الشمرة”
- Arabic: “رأس شمرا”
- Arabic: “رأس شمرة”
- Armenian: “Ուգարիտ”
- Armenian: “Ռաս Շամրա”
- Asturian: “Ugarit”
- Azerbaijani: “Uqarit”
- Bashkir: “Угарит”
- Basque: “Ugarit”
- Belarusian: “Угарыт”
- Bengali: “উগারিট”
- Bulgarian: “Рас-Шамра”
- Bulgarian: “Угарит”
- Catalan: “Ras Shamra”
- Catalan: “Ugarit”
- Cebuano: “Ra’s Shamrā”
- Chinese: “乌加里特”
- Chinese: “乌旮瑞特”
- Chinese: “烏加里特”
- Chuvash: “Угарит”
- Croatian: “Ugarit”
- Czech: “Ras Šamra”
- Czech: “Ugarit”
- Dutch: “Oegarit”
- Dutch: “Ras Shamra”
- Dutch: “Ugarit”
- Egyptian Arabic: “اوغاريت”
- Esperanto: “Ugarit”
- Esperanto: “Ugarito”
- Finnish: “Ras Shamra”
- Finnish: “Ugarit”
- French: “Ougarit”
- French: “Ras Shamra”
- French: “Ras-Shamra”
- French: “Ugarit”
- Galician: “Alfabeto ugarítico”
- Galician: “Ugarit”
- Galician: “Ugarítico”
- Georgian: “უგარითი”
- German: “Ras Shamra”
- German: “Ugarit”
- Greek: “Ουγκαρίτ”
- Hebrew: “אוגרית”
- Hindi: “उगारिट”
- Hindi: “उगारिटा”
- Hindi: “रास शामरा”
- Hungarian: “Ugarit”
- Icelandic: “Úgarít”
- Indonesian: “Ugarit”
- Italian: “Ras Shamra”
- Italian: “Ugarit”
- Japanese: “ウガリット”
- Japanese: “ウガリト”
- Korean: “우가리트”
- Korean: “우가리트어”
- Korean: “우가리트인”
- Latin: “Ugarit”
- Lithuanian: “Ugaritas”
- Malagasy: “Ogarita”
- Malay: “Ugarit”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ugarit”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ugarit”
- Norwegian: “Ugarit”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Ugarit”
- Persian: “اوگاریت”
- Persian: “اوگاریتی”
- Polish: “Ugarit”
- Polish: “Ugaryt”
- Portuguese: “Ras Shamra”
- Portuguese: “Ugarit”
- Portuguese: “Ugarite”
- Romanian: “Ugarit”
- Russian: “Рас-Шамра”
- Russian: “Угарит”
- Serbian: “Ugarit”
- Serbian: “Рас Шамра”
- Serbian: “Угарит”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ras Šamra”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ras Shamra”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ugarit”
- Slovak: “Ugarit”
- Slovenian: “Ras Šamra”
- Slovenian: “Ras Shamra”
- Slovenian: “Ugarit”
- South Azerbaijani: “اوقاریت”
- Spanish: “Ras Shamra”
- Spanish: “Ugarit”
- Spanish: “Ugarít”
- Swedish: “Ras Shamra”
- Swedish: “Ugarit”
- Swedish: “Ugrarit”
- Tagalog: “Ugarit”
- Tamil: “உகாரித்து”
- Turkish: “Ugarit”
- Ukrainian: “Угарит”
- Ukrainian: “Угаріт”
- Urdu: “اوگاریت”
- Venetian: “Ugarit”
- Vietnamese: “Ugarit”
- Waray (Philippines): “Ugarit”
- Welsh: “Ugarit”
- Wu Chinese: “乌加里特”
- Yue Chinese: “烏加里特”
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