Umm el-Marra
Umm el-Marra, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of Aleppo Governorate Syria, was one of the ancient Near East's oldest cities, located on a crossroads of two trade routes northwest of Ebla, in a landscape that was much more fertile than it is today.- Archaeological site
- Description: village in Syria
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Latitude
36.13397° or 36° 8′ 2″ north
Longitude
37.69358° or 37° 41′ 37″ east
Open location code
8G8V4MMV+HC
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historic = archaeological_site
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Umm el-Marra” goes by many names.
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