Ishtar Gate

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.
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Babylon and Esagila.

Photo: Edwin Long, Public domain.
is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in , today only ruins; it was once one of the most prominent cities of Ancient Mesopotamia. Alexander the Great chose 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.

Archaeological site
The Ésagila or Esangil was a temple dedicated to Marduk, the protector god of . It lay south of the ziggurat . is situated 1 km south of Ishtar Gate.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hillah.

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is in . is the nearest city to the ruins of , which are 5 km north of the city. It is the capital of Babylon Province and has a population of about 456,000.

Ishtar Gate

Latitude
32.54148° or 32° 32′ 29″ north
Longitude
44.42397° or 44° 25′ 26″ east
Open location code
8H46GCRF+HH
Open­Street­Map ID
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Wiki­data ID
Q26082
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Ishtar Gate” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوابة عشتار”
  • Arabic: “بوابه عشتار”
  • Armenian: “Իշտարի դարպասներ”
  • Azerbaijani: “İştar darvazası”
  • Basque: “Ishtar Atea”
  • Basque: “Ishtar-eko atea”
  • Basque: “Ishtarko atea”
  • Basque: “Ixtarren atea”
  • Belarusian: “Вароты Іштар”
  • Breton: “Dor Ishtar”
  • Bulgarian: “Порта на Ищар”
  • Bulgarian: “Портата на Ищар”
  • Catalan: “Porta d’Ishtar”
  • Catalan: “porta d’Ixtar”
  • Catalan: “Porta d’Ixtar”
  • Central Kurdish: “دەروازەی عەشتار”
  • Chinese: “伊什塔尔城门”
  • Chinese: “伊什塔尔门”
  • Chinese: “伊希塔城门”
  • Chinese: “伊斯塔門”
  • Chinese: “伊絲達爾門”
  • Chinese: “易士塔门”
  • Chuvash: “Иштар хапхи”
  • Croatian: “Ištarine dveri”
  • Czech: “Ištařina brána”
  • Danish: “Ishtarporten”
  • Dutch: “Ishtar-poort”
  • Dutch: “Ishtarpoort”
  • Dutch: “Isjtarpoort”
  • Dutch: “Istarpoort”
  • Dutch: “Ištarpoort”
  • Dutch: “Poort van Ishtar”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوابة عشتار”
  • Esperanto: “Iŝtar-pordego”
  • Esperanto: “Iŝtar-pordo”
  • Estonian: “Ištari värav”
  • Finnish: “Ishtar-portti”
  • Finnish: “Ishtarin portti”
  • Finnish: “Ištar-portti”
  • Finnish: “Ištarin portti”
  • French: “porte d’Ishtar”
  • French: “Porte d’Ishtar”
  • Galician: “Porta de Ishtar”
  • Georgian: “ბაბილონის იშთარის კარიბჭე”
  • Georgian: “იშთარის კარიბჭე”
  • German: “Ischtar-Tor”
  • German: “Ischtartor”
  • German: “Ištar-Tor”
  • Greek: “Πύλη της Ιστάρ”
  • Hebrew: “שער אישתר”
  • Hebrew: “שער אשתר”
  • Hebrew: “שער עשתר”
  • Hindi: “ईशर गेट”
  • Hungarian: “Istár-kapu”
  • Indonesian: “Gerbang Ishtar”
  • Italian: “Porta di Ishtar”
  • Italian: “Porta di Ištar”
  • Japanese: “イシュタール門”
  • Japanese: “イシュタルの門”
  • Japanese: “イシュタル門”
  • Korean: “이슈타르 문”
  • Korean: “이슈타르의 문”
  • Latin: “Porta Ištar”
  • Latvian: “Ištaras vārti”
  • Lithuanian: “Ištarės vartai”
  • Macedonian: “Порта на Иштар”
  • Macedonian: “Портата на Иштар”
  • Maori: “Kūaha Ishtar”
  • Mongolian: “Иштар хаалга”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ischtarporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ishtarporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Isjtarporten”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Istarporten”
  • Norwegian: “Istarporten”
  • Persian: “دروازه ایشتار”
  • Polish: “Brama Isztar”
  • Portuguese: “Porta de Ishtar”
  • Portuguese: “Porta de Istar”
  • Portuguese: “Portão de Ishtar”
  • Russian: “Ворота богини Иштар”
  • Russian: “Ворота Иштар”
  • Russian: “Врата Иштар”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ištarina kapija”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ištarine dveri”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Vrata Ištar”
  • Slovak: “Ištarina brána”
  • Slovenian: “Ištarina vrata”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Ishtar”
  • Spanish: “Puerta de Istar”
  • Swedish: “Ishtarporten”
  • Swedish: “Isjtarporten”
  • Swedish: “Istarporten”
  • Tagalog: “Pintuang-bayan ni Ishtar”
  • Tagalog: “Tarangkahan ni Ishtar”
  • Tamil: “இஷ்தர் கோயில் நுழைவாயில்”
  • Thai: “ประตูอิชทาร์”
  • Turkish: “İştar Kapısı”
  • Ukrainian: “Брама Іштар”
  • Ukrainian: “Ворота Іштар”
  • Urdu: “دروازہ عشتار”
  • Uzbek: “Ishtar darvozasi (Bobil)”
  • Uzbek: “Ishtar darvozasi”
  • Vietnamese: “Cổng Ishtar”

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