Tell Meskene

Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the of northern . It sits in the great bend of the mid-, now on the shoreline of the man-made Lake Assad near the town of .
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in northern Syria
  • Also known as: “Emar” and “تل مسكنة”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Maskanah.

Town
, also spelled Meskene, is a town in northern , administratively part of the of the . The town is located 100 kilometres southeast of on the Lake Assad part of the . is situated 7 km southwest of Tell Meskene.

Tell Meskene

Latitude
35.98716° or 35° 59′ 14″ north
Longitude
38.11075° or 38° 6′ 39″ east
Open location code
8G7WX4P6+V7
Open­Street­Map ID
way 226877980
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Wiki­data ID
Q1196243
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tell Meskene” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إيمار”
  • Belarusian: “Эмар”
  • Bulgarian: “Емар”
  • Catalan: “Ashtata”
  • Catalan: “Balis”
  • Catalan: “Barbalissos”
  • Catalan: “Emar”
  • Chinese: “埃瑪”
  • Chinese: “埃馬爾”
  • Dutch: “Emar”
  • French: “Emar”
  • French: “Meskene”
  • French: “Tell Meskene”
  • Galician: “Ashtata”
  • Galician: “Barbalissos”
  • Galician: “Emar”
  • German: “Aštata”
  • German: “Emar”
  • German: “Tell Meskene”
  • Hebrew: “אמר”
  • Indonesian: “Emar”
  • Italian: “Emar”
  • Italian: “Imar”
  • Italian: “Meskene”
  • Italian: “Tell Meskene”
  • Japanese: “エマル”
  • Korean: “에마르”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Emar”
  • Norwegian: “Emar”
  • Polish: “Emar”
  • Portuguese: “Emar”
  • Portuguese: “Tell Meskene”
  • Russian: “Эмар”
  • Serbian: “Емар”
  • Slovenian: “Emar”
  • Spanish: “Emar”
  • Turkish: “Emar”
  • Ukrainian: “Емар (місто)”
  • Ukrainian: “Емар”
  • Urdu: “ایمار”

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