Larsa

Larsa, also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar.
Wikipedia
  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: human settlement
  • Also known as: “Ellasar”, “Królowie Larsy”, “Larag”, “Larak”, “Laraq”, “Sinkara”, “Tell as-Senkereh”, “Телль-эс-Сенкере”, “صنكرة”, “مملكة لارسا”, “라락”, and “拉尔沙”

Larsa

Latitude
31.28191° or 31° 16′ 55″ north
Longitude
45.85354° or 45° 51′ 13″ east
Open location code
8H377VJ3+QC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1424112754
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q244746
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In Other Languages

From Amharic to Vietnamese—“Larsa” goes by many names.
  • Amharic: “ላርሳ”
  • Arabic: “لارسا”
  • Asturian: “Larsa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Larsa”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qədim Larsa”
  • Bashkir: “Ларса”
  • Basque: “Larsa”
  • Belarusian: “Ларса”
  • Catalan: “Larsa”
  • Cebuano: “Şankarah”
  • Central Kurdish: “لارسا”
  • Chinese: “拉尔萨”
  • Chinese: “拉爾薩”
  • Chuvash: “Ларса”
  • Czech: “Larsa”
  • Dutch: “Larsa”
  • Esperanto: “Larsa”
  • Finnish: “Larsa”
  • French: “Larsa”
  • Galician: “Larsa”
  • Georgian: “ლარსა”
  • German: “Larsa”
  • Greek: “Λαραγχων”
  • Hebrew: “לרסה”
  • Hindi: “लर्सा”
  • Hungarian: “Larsza”
  • Indonesian: “Larsa”
  • Irish: “Larsa”
  • Italian: “Larsa”
  • Japanese: “ラルサ”
  • Korean: “라르사”
  • Lithuanian: “Larsa”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Larsa”
  • Norwegian: “Larsa”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Larsa”
  • Persian: “لارسا”
  • Polish: “Larsa”
  • Polish: “Ларса”
  • Portuguese: “Larsa”
  • Romanian: “Larsa”
  • Russian: “Ларса”
  • Serbian: “Ларса”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Larsa”
  • Slovak: “Larsa”
  • Slovenian: “Larsa”
  • Spanish: “Larsa”
  • Swedish: “Larsa”
  • Tagalog: “Larsa”
  • Tamil: “லார்சா”
  • Turkish: “Larsa”
  • Ukrainian: “Ларса”
  • Urdu: “لارسا”
  • Vietnamese: “Larsa”

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