Ur

Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in , . Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the on the , the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the , 16 km southwest of the city of .
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Mesopotamian city-state
  • Also known as: “Tell al-Muqayyar”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ziggurat of Ur and Ennigaldi-Nanna’s museum.

Archaeological site
Photo: Hardnfast, CC BY 3.0.
The is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what was the city of Ur near , in present-day , . The structure was built during the Early Bronze Age by King Ur-Nammu of the Third Dynasty of Ur. is situated 160 metres northwest of Ur.

Ruins
Photo: lubinski, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public . It dates to circa 530 BCE. The curator was Ennigaldi, the daughter of Nabonidus, the last king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

Ur

Latitude
30.96171° or 30° 57′ 42″ north
Longitude
46.10425° or 46° 6′ 15″ east
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
Open location code
8H28X463+MP
Geo­Names ID
9587349
Wiki­data ID
Q5699
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ur” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Ur”
  • Amharic: “ኡር”
  • Arabic: “أور”
  • Armenian: “Ուր”
  • Asturian: “Ur”
  • Azerbaijani: “Ur”
  • Bashkir: “Ур”
  • Basque: “Ur (hiria)”
  • Basque: “Ur”
  • Belarusian: “Ур”
  • Bengali: “উর”
  • Bosnian: “Ur”
  • Bulgarian: “Ур”
  • Catalan: “Ur”
  • Cebuano: “Ur (arkiyolohiyang dapit)”
  • Central Kurdish: “ئوور”
  • Chechen: “Ур”
  • Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Chinese: “吾珥”
  • Chinese: “烏爾”
  • Chinese: “烏爾城”
  • Chuvash: “Ур”
  • Croatian: “Ur”
  • Czech: “Ur (město)”
  • Czech: “Ur”
  • Danish: “Ur (oldtidsby)”
  • Danish: “Ur”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Ur”
  • Dutch: “Oer (Soemer)”
  • Dutch: “Ur (Sumer)”
  • Dutch: “Ur”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اور”
  • Esperanto: “Ur (urbo)”
  • Esperanto: “Ur”
  • Estonian: “Ur”
  • Finnish: “Ur”
  • French: “Ur (Mésopotamie)”
  • French: “Ur”
  • Galician: “Ur”
  • Georgian: “ური”
  • German: “Mugajjar”
  • German: “Mukaijar”
  • German: “Tell al-Mukaijar”
  • German: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • German: “Ur”
  • Greek: “Ουρ”
  • Hebrew: “אור”
  • Hindi: “उर, मेसोपोटामिया”
  • Hindi: “उर”
  • Hungarian: “Ur”
  • Icelandic: “Ur”
  • Indonesian: “Ur”
  • Irish: “Ur”
  • Italian: “Ur”
  • Japanese: “ᚢ”
  • Japanese: “ウル”
  • Kannada: “ಉರ್”
  • Korean: “우르”
  • Kurdish: “Ur (bajar)”
  • Kurdish: “Ur”
  • Latin: “Ur”
  • Latvian: “Ūra”
  • Lithuanian: “Ūras”
  • Macedonian: “Ур”
  • Malagasy: “Ora (tanana tamin’ny Andro Taloha)”
  • Malagasy: “Ora”
  • Malayalam: “ഉർ”
  • Malayalam: “ഊർ, മെസപ്പൊട്ടേമിയ”
  • Malayalam: “ഊർ”
  • Mingrelian: “ური”
  • Nepali: “उर”
  • Newari: “उर”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ur (Mesopotamia)”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ur”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ur i Mesopotamia”
  • Norwegian: “Ur (Mesopotamia)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ur (vila)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ur”
  • Official Aramaic (700-300 BCE): “ܐܘܪ”
  • Papiamento: “Ur”
  • Persian: “اور”
  • Polish: “Tall al-Mukajjar”
  • Polish: “Ur (miasto)”
  • Polish: “Ur Chaldejskie”
  • Polish: “Ur”
  • Portuguese: “Ur”
  • Romanian: “Ur”
  • Russian: “Ур Халдейский”
  • Russian: “Ур”
  • Saraiki: “اُر”
  • Scots: “Ur”
  • Serbian: “Ур”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ur”
  • Sinhala: “උඅර්”
  • Slovak: “Ur”
  • Slovenian: “Mukadžar”
  • Slovenian: “Ur”
  • Slovenian: “Urim”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اور”
  • Spanish: “Ur”
  • Swahili: “Ur”
  • Swedish: “Ur, Mesopotamien”
  • Swedish: “Ur”
  • Swiss German: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • Swiss German: “Ur”
  • Tagalog: “Ur”
  • Tajik: “Ур”
  • Tamil: “ஊர்”
  • Thai: “อูร์”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Ur (Stadt)”
  • Turkish: “Ur (antik kent)”
  • Turkish: “Ur”
  • Ukrainian: “Ур”
  • Ukrainian: “Ура Халдейський”
  • Urdu: “اُر”
  • Vietnamese: “Ur (thành phố)”
  • Vietnamese: “Ur”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ur”
  • Welsh: “Ur”
  • Western Frisian: “Oer”
  • Western Panjabi: “آر”
  • Western Panjabi: “اُر”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌尔”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏爾”

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