Etemenanki
Etemenanki was a ziggurat dedicated to the Mesopotamian god Marduk in the ancient city of Babylon. It now exists only in ruins, located about 90 kilometres south of Baghdad, Iraq.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: O.Mustafin, CC0.
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Babylon and Esagila.
Babylon
Photo: Edwin Long, Public domain.
Babylon is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Iraq, today only ruins; it was once one of the most prominent cities of Ancient Mesopotamia. Alexander the Great chose Babylon to be the capital of the great empire he had created, and died there while planning further conquests; for several centuries after that it was a major center of the Seleucid Empire founded by one of his generals.
Esagila
Archaeological site
The Ésagila or Esangil was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of Babylon. It lay south of the ziggurat Etemenanki. Esagila is situated 310 metres south of Etemenanki.
Ishtar Gate
City gate
Photo: rictor-and-david, CC BY 2.0.
The Ishtar Gate was the eighth gate to the inner city wall of Babylon. It was constructed c. 569 BC by order of King Nebuchadnezzar II on the north side of the city. Ishtar Gate is situated 620 metres northeast of Etemenanki.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hillah.
Hillah
Hillah is in Southern Iraq. Hillah is the nearest city to the ruins of Babylon, which are 5 km north of the city. It is the capital of Babylon Province and has a population of about 456,000.
Etemenanki
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: ruined ziggurat
- Categories: ziggurat, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Mahawil District, Babil Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Etemenanki” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إيتيمينانكي”
- Armenian: “Էտեմենանկի”
- Belarusian: “Зікурат Этэменанкі”
- Bulgarian: “Етеменанки”
- Catalan: “Etemenanki”
- Chinese: “埃特曼安吉”
- Chinese: “埃特梅南基”
- Czech: “Etemenanki”
- Dutch: “Etemenanki”
- Esperanto: “Etemenanki”
- Estonian: “Etemenanki”
- Finnish: “Etemenanki”
- French: “Etemenanki”
- Galician: “Etemenanki”
- German: “Etemenanki”
- Hebrew: “אתמנאנכי”
- Hungarian: “Étemenanki”
- Indonesian: “Etemenanki”
- Italian: “Etemenanki”
- Japanese: “エ・テメン・アン・キ”
- Korean: “에테멘앙키”
- Persian: “اتمنانکی”
- Polish: “E-temenanki”
- Portuguese: “Etemenanki”
- Portuguese: “Etemenanqui”
- Romanian: “Etemenanki”
- Russian: “Этеменанки”
- Slovak: “Etemenanki”
- Slovenian: “Etemenanki”
- Spanish: “Etemenanki”
- Swedish: “Etemenanki”
- Thai: “เอเตเมนอันกี”
- Turkish: “Babil Zigguratı”
- Turkish: “Etemenanki”
- Ukrainian: “Етеменанкі”
- Vietnamese: “Etemenanki”
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