Umma

Umma in modern Dhi Qar Province in , was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site.
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Photo: Rama, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr.
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: ancient Human Settlement
  • Also known as: “Tell Jokha”

Umma

Latitude
31.66899° or 31° 40′ 8″ north
Longitude
45.88755° or 45° 53′ 15″ east
Open location code
8H37MV9Q+H2
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1341321492
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q740952
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Welsh—“Umma” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ኡማ”
  • Arabic: “أوما”
  • Arabic: “اوما”
  • Asturian: “Umma”
  • Basque: “Umma”
  • Belarusian: “Ума”
  • Bulgarian: “Ума”
  • Catalan: “Umma”
  • Chinese: “烏瑪”
  • Danish: “Umma”
  • Dutch: “Tell Jokha”
  • Dutch: “Umma (stad)”
  • Dutch: “Umma”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوما”
  • Finnish: “Umma”
  • French: “Umma”
  • Georgian: “უმა”
  • German: “Tell Jokha”
  • German: “Umma”
  • Hebrew: “אומה”
  • Hungarian: “Umma”
  • Indonesian: “Umma”
  • Irish: “Umma”
  • Italian: “Umma”
  • Japanese: “ウンマ”
  • Korean: “움마”
  • Lithuanian: “Uma (Šumeras)”
  • Lithuanian: “Uma”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Umma”
  • Norwegian: “Umma”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Umma”
  • Persian: “اوما”
  • Polish: “Umma”
  • Portuguese: “Uma”
  • Portuguese: “Umma (Suméria)”
  • Romanian: “Umma (Sumer)”
  • Romanian: “Umma”
  • Russian: “Умма”
  • Serbian: “Ума”
  • Slovak: “Umma”
  • Slovenian: “Uma”
  • Spanish: “Kishsha”
  • Spanish: “Kissa”
  • Spanish: “Tell Yoja”
  • Spanish: “Umma”
  • Swedish: “Umma”
  • Tagalog: “Umma”
  • Tamil: “உம்மா”
  • Turkish: “Umma”
  • Ukrainian: “Умма”
  • Uzbek: “Umma”
  • Vietnamese: “Umma”
  • Welsh: “Umma”

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