Ur
Ur was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, 16 km southwest of the city of Nasiriyah.
- Archaeological site
- …lies at an elevation of 17 metres (56 feet)
- …is also known as “Tell al-Muqayyar”
- Description: ancient Mesopotamian city-state
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Ziggurat of Ur and Ennigaldi-Nanna’s museum.
Ziggurat of Ur
Archaeological site
The Ziggurat of Ur is a Neo-Sumerian ziggurat in what… Ziggurat of Ur is situated 160 metres northwest of Ur.
Ennigaldi-Nanna’s museum
Ruins
Ennigaldi-Nanna's museum is the earliest known public museum.
Ur
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Latitude
30.96171° or 30° 57′ 42″ north
Longitude
46.10425° or 46° 6′ 15″ east
Open location code
8H28X463+MP
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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”
- 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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