Iraq
Dhi Qar
Al-Shatrah District

Lagash

Lagash was an ancient city-state located northwest of the junction of the and rivers and east of , about 22 kilometres east of the modern town of , Iraq.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Mesopotamian city-state
  • Also known as: “Al-Hiba”, “Lagac”, “Lagaš”, “Shirpurla”, and “Tell al-Hiba”

Lagash

Latitude
31.41987° or 31° 25′ 12″ north
Longitude
46.41231° or 46° 24′ 44″ east
Open location code
8H38CC96+WW
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1272837412
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q207330
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Wu Chinese—“Lagash” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Lagasj”
  • Amharic: “ላጋሽ”
  • Arabic: “لجش”
  • Arabic: “لكش”
  • Arabic: “لگش”
  • Armenian: “Լագաշ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Laqaş”
  • Bashkir: “Лагаш”
  • Basque: “Lagash”
  • Belarusian: “Лагаш”
  • Bulgarian: “Лагаш”
  • Catalan: “Lagaix”
  • Catalan: “Lagaš”
  • Catalan: “Lagash”
  • Chinese: “拉伽什”
  • Chinese: “拉加什”
  • Chinese: “拉加士”
  • Chinese: “拉旮什”
  • Chinese: “拉格什”
  • Czech: “Lagaš”
  • Danish: “Lagash”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Lagaş”
  • Dutch: “Lagas”
  • Dutch: “Lagaš”
  • Dutch: “Lagash”
  • Dutch: “Lagasj”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “لجش”
  • Esperanto: “Lagaŝ”
  • Finnish: “Gudea”
  • Finnish: “Lagaš”
  • Finnish: “Lagash”
  • Finnish: “Lagashin dynastia”
  • French: “Lagash”
  • Galician: “Lagash”
  • Georgian: “ლაგაში”
  • German: “Lagas”
  • German: “Lagaš”
  • German: “Lagasch”
  • German: “Lagash”
  • German: “Tell el-Hiba”
  • Greek: “Λαγκάς”
  • Hebrew: “לאגאש”
  • Hebrew: “לגש”
  • Hindi: “लागाश”
  • Hungarian: “Lagas”
  • Indonesian: “Lagash”
  • Italian: “Lagaš”
  • Italian: “Lagash”
  • Italian: “Tell al-Hiba”
  • Japanese: “ラガシュ”
  • Japanese: “ラガシュ第1王朝”
  • Japanese: “ラガシュ第2王朝”
  • Kirghiz: “Лагаш”
  • Korean: “라가시”
  • Latvian: “Lagaša”
  • Lithuanian: “Lagašas”
  • Macedonian: “Лагаш”
  • Mingrelian: “ლაგაში”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagash”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Lagasj”
  • Norwegian: “Lagasj”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Lagash”
  • Persian: “لاگاش”
  • Polish: “Lagasz”
  • Portuguese: “Lagas”
  • Portuguese: “Lagash”
  • Portuguese: “Lagaxe”
  • Portuguese: “Xirpula”
  • Romanian: “Lagaş”
  • Romanian: “Lagaș”
  • Russian: “Лагаш”
  • Serbian: “Lagaš”
  • Serbian: “Лагаш”
  • Serbian: “Сирпула”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lagaš”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Lagash”
  • Sinhala: “ලාගාෂ්”
  • Slovak: “Lagaš”
  • Slovenian: “Lagaš”
  • Spanish: “Al-Hiba”
  • Spanish: “Lagash”
  • Spanish: “Sirpurla”
  • Spanish: “Tell al-Hiba”
  • Swedish: “Lagash”
  • Tagalog: “Lagash”
  • Tamil: “லகாசு”
  • Turkish: “Lagaş”
  • Ukrainian: “Лагаш”
  • Uzbek: “Lagash”
  • Venetian: “Lagash”
  • Vietnamese: “Lagash”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Lagash”
  • Wu Chinese: “拉格什”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lagash”. Photo: Jastrow, Public domain.