Umm el-Marra
Umm el-Marra, east of modern Aleppo in the Jabbul Plain of northern 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.Umm el-Marra
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: village in Syria
- Categories: village, populated place in Syria, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Aleppo Governorate, Syria, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
36.13397° or 36° 8′ 2″ northLongitude
37.69358° or 37° 41′ 37″ eastOpen location code
8G8V4MMV+HCOpenStreetMap ID
way 1105330736OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q7881676
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Umm el-Marra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أم المرة”
- Dutch: “Umm el-Marra”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ام المره”
- French: “Tell Umm el-Marra”
- German: “Umm el-Marra”
- Japanese: “ウンム・エル・マッラ”
- Persian: “ام المره”
- Persian: “امالمره”
- Polish: “Umm al-Mara”
- Spanish: “Umm el-Marra”
- Turkish: “Umm el-Marra”
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