Borsippa
Borsippa is an archeological site in Babylon Governorate, Iraq, built on both sides of a lake about 17.7 km southwest of Babylon on the east bank of the Euphrates.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ancient Babylonian city
- Also known as: “Athar an Namrud”, “Īshān Nimrūd”, and “ثار النمرود”
Borsippa
- Categories: human settlement, ancient city, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Hilla District, Babil Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Borsippa” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “اثار النمرود”
- Arabic: “بورسيبا”
- Azerbaijani: “Borsippa”
- Bashkir: “Tintir II, Икенсе Бабил”
- Bashkir: “Барзипа”
- Bashkir: “Борсиппа”
- Basque: “Borsippa”
- Belarusian: “Барсіпа”
- Catalan: “Borsippa”
- Catalan: “Vologèsia”
- Cebuano: “Āthār an Namrūd”
- Chinese: “博尔西帕”
- Croatian: “Borsipa”
- Croatian: “Borsippa”
- Czech: “Borsippa”
- Dutch: “Borsippa”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورسيبا”
- Esperanto: “Borsipo”
- French: “Borsippa”
- German: “Badursiabba”
- German: “Barsippa”
- German: “Barzipa”
- German: “Birs Nimrud)”
- German: “Borsippa”
- German: “Kinnir”
- German: “Kinunir”
- German: “Tintir II”
- Hebrew: “בורסיפה”
- Hungarian: “Borszippa”
- Indonesian: “Borsippa”
- Irish: “Borsippa”
- Italian: “Borsippa”
- Japanese: “エ・ジダ”
- Japanese: “ボルシッパ”
- Korean: “보르시파”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Borsippa”
- Norwegian: “Borsippa”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡁࡅࡓࡎࡉࡐ”
- Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ࡁࡅࡓࡎࡉࡐࡉ”
- Persian: “بورسیپا”
- Polish: “Borsippa”
- Portuguese: “Birs Nimrud”
- Portuguese: “Borsipa”
- Portuguese: “Borsippa”
- Russian: “Борсиппа”
- Serbian: “Борсипа”
- Slovenian: “Borsipa”
- Spanish: “Borsippa”
- Swedish: “Borsippa”
- Tamil: “போர்சிப்பா”
- Turkish: “Borsippa”
- Ukrainian: “Борсіппа”
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About Mapcarta. Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Borsippa”. Photo: Neuroforever, CC BY-SA 4.0.