Ugarit

Ugarit was an ancient coastal city located in what is today northern . The site, with its corpus of ancient cuneiform texts, was discovered in 1928.
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  • Type: Ruins
  • Description: ancient port city in northern Syria
  • Also known as: “Ras Shamra”, “Ugarit, Ras Chamra, Ougarit”, and “رأس شمرا”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cotes D’Azure Resort.

Seaside resort
Photo: Zozo2kx, Public domain.
Cote d'Azur, known locally as the Blue Beach is a beach resort located 8 kilometers north of , along the Mediterranean coast, on a site of archaeological importance called . is situated 4 km southwest of Ugarit.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Latakia.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC0.
, also spelt Lattakia, is a major port in , with a population of 550,000. is a city extending back to Ancient Greek times, and continues to be an important commercial port for Syria today.

Ugarit

Latitude
35.60231° or 35° 36′ 8″ north
Longitude
35.78513° or 35° 47′ 7″ east
Open location code
8G7QJQ2P+W3
Open­Street­Map ID
way 145167629
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­ruins
Wiki­data ID
Q191369
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Ugarit” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Oegarit”
  • Albanian: “Ugarit”
  • Arabic: “أوغاريت”
  • Arabic: “اوغاريت”
  • Arabic: “رأس شمرة”
  • Armenian: “Ուգարիտ”
  • Armenian: “Ռաս Շամրա”
  • Asturian: “Ugarit”
  • Azerbaijani: “Uqarit”
  • Bashkir: “Угарит”
  • Basque: “Ugarit”
  • Belarusian: “Угарыт”
  • Bengali: “উগারিট”
  • Bulgarian: “Рас-Шамра”
  • Bulgarian: “Угарит”
  • Catalan: “Ras Shamra”
  • Catalan: “Ugarit”
  • Cebuano: “Ra’s Shamrā”
  • Chinese: “乌加里特”
  • Chinese: “乌旮瑞特”
  • Chinese: “烏加里特”
  • Chuvash: “Угарит”
  • Croatian: “Ugarit”
  • Czech: “Ras Šamra”
  • Czech: “Ugarit”
  • Dutch: “Oegarit”
  • Dutch: “Ras Shamra”
  • Dutch: “Ugarit”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “اوغاريت”
  • Esperanto: “Ugarit”
  • Esperanto: “Ugarito”
  • Finnish: “Ras Shamra”
  • Finnish: “Ugarit”
  • French: “Ougarit”
  • French: “Ras Shamra”
  • French: “Ras-Shamra”
  • French: “Ugarit”
  • Galician: “Ugarit”
  • Galician: “Ugarítico”
  • Georgian: “უგარითი”
  • German: “Ras Shamra”
  • German: “Ugarit”
  • Greek: “Ουγκαρίτ”
  • Hebrew: “אוגרית”
  • Hindi: “उगारिट”
  • Hindi: “उगारिटा”
  • Hindi: “रास शामरा”
  • Hungarian: “Ugarit”
  • Icelandic: “Úgarít”
  • Indonesian: “Ugarit”
  • Italian: “Ras Shamra”
  • Italian: “Ugarit”
  • Japanese: “ウガリット”
  • Japanese: “ウガリト”
  • Korean: “우가리트”
  • Korean: “우가리트어”
  • Korean: “우가리트인”
  • Latin: “Ugarit”
  • Lithuanian: “Ugaritas”
  • Malagasy: “Ogarita”
  • Malay: “Ugarit”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Ugarit”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ugarit”
  • Norwegian: “Ugarit”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Ugarit”
  • Persian: “اوگاریت”
  • Persian: “اوگاریتی”
  • Polish: “Ugarit”
  • Polish: “Ugaryt”
  • Portuguese: “Ras Shamra”
  • Portuguese: “Ugarit”
  • Portuguese: “Ugarite”
  • Romanian: “Ugarit”
  • Russian: “Рас-Шамра”
  • Russian: “Угарит”
  • Serbian: “Ugarit”
  • Serbian: “Рас Шамра”
  • Serbian: “Угарит”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ras Šamra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ras Shamra”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Ugarit”
  • Slovak: “Ugarit”
  • Slovenian: “Ras Šamra”
  • Slovenian: “Ras Shamra”
  • Slovenian: “Ugarit”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اوقاریت”
  • Spanish: “Ras Shamra”
  • Spanish: “Ugarit”
  • Spanish: “Ugarít”
  • Swedish: “Ras Shamra”
  • Swedish: “Ugarit”
  • Swedish: “Ugrarit”
  • Tagalog: “Ugarit”
  • Tamil: “உகாரித்து”
  • Turkish: “Ugarit”
  • Ukrainian: “Угарит”
  • Ukrainian: “Угаріт”
  • Urdu: “اوگاریت”
  • Venetian: “Ugarit”
  • Vietnamese: “Ugarit”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Ugarit”
  • Welsh: “Ugarit”
  • Wu Chinese: “乌加里特”
  • Yue Chinese: “烏加里特”

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