Bad-tibira

Bad-tibira was an ancient Sumerian city dating back to the Early Dynastic period, which appears among antediluvian cities in the Sumerian King List. In the earliest days of Akkadian language studies its name was mistakenly read as Dûr-gurgurri.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Bad tibira”, “Dur gurgurri”, “Dûr gurgurri”, “Dur-gurgurri”, “Dûr-gurgurri”, “Tell al-Madain”, “Бад-тибиру”, “Тель әл-Мадаин”, “باد-تيبيرا”, “باطبريا”, “바드티비라”, and “バッド・ティビラ”

Bad-tibira

Latitude
31.38331° or 31° 22′ 60″ north
Longitude
46.00425° or 46° 0′ 15″ east
Open location code
8H3892M3+8P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5282149540
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q1372270
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Bad-tibira” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “باد تيبيرا”
  • Azerbaijani: “Bad-tibira”
  • Bashkir: “Бад-тибира”
  • Catalan: “Badtibira”
  • Chinese: “巴德-提比拉”
  • Czech: “Bad-tibira”
  • Dutch: “Bad-tibira”
  • Dutch: “Badtibira”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “باد تيبيرا”
  • Finnish: “Bad-tibira”
  • French: “Bad-Tibira”
  • Hebrew: “באד-טיבירה”
  • Irish: “Bad-tibira”
  • Italian: “Bad-tibira”
  • Japanese: “バドティビラ”
  • Korean: “바드-티비라”
  • Lithuanian: “Bad-tibira”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bad-tibira”
  • Norwegian: “Bad-tibira”
  • Persian: “بادتیبیرا”
  • Polish: “Bad-tibira”
  • Russian: “Бад-тибира”
  • Serbian: “Бад-тибира”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bad-tibira”
  • Slovenian: “Bad-tibira”
  • Spanish: “Bad-tibira”
  • Tagalog: “Bad-tibira”
  • Turkish: “Bad-tibira”
  • Ukrainian: “Бад-Тібіра”

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