Tell Leilan

Tell Leilan is an archaeological site situated near the Wadi Jarrah in the Khabur River basin in Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern . The site has been occupied since the 5th millennium BC.
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  • Type: Archaeological site
  • Description: archaeological site in Syria
  • Also known as: “Shekhna” and “Shubat Enlil”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Al-Qahtaniya.

Town
Al-Qahtaniyah, formerly Qubur al-Bid, is a town in northeastern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern . It is the administrative center of al-Qahtaniyah Subdistrict, which consists of 103 localities. is situated 9 km northeast of Tell Leilan.

Tell Leilan

Latitude
36.95538° or 36° 57′ 19″ north
Longitude
41.5065° or 41° 30′ 23″ east
Open location code
8H83XG44+5H
Open­Street­Map ID
way 373936354
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
man_made=­tell
Wiki­data ID
Q588192
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Urdu—“Tell Leilan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “تل ليلان”
  • Bulgarian: “Шубат Енлил”
  • Catalan: “Tell Leilan”
  • Chinese: “雷兰遗址”
  • Chinese: “雷蘭遺址”
  • Czech: “Šubat-Enlil”
  • Dutch: “Tell Leilan”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “تل ليلان”
  • Finnish: “Tell Leilan”
  • French: “Tell Leilan”
  • German: “Tall Leilan”
  • Hebrew: “תל ליילאן”
  • Hungarian: “Subat-Enlil”
  • Irish: “Tell Leilan”
  • Italian: “Tell Leilan”
  • Japanese: “テル・レイラン”
  • Korean: “텔 레일란”
  • Lithuanian: “Šechna”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tell Leilan”
  • Norwegian: “Tell Leilan”
  • Persian: “تل لیلان”
  • Persian: “شخنا”
  • Persian: “شوبات-انلیل”
  • Polish: “Tell Leilan”
  • Russian: “Шубат-Эллиль”
  • Russian: “Шубат-Энлиль”
  • Slovenian: “Šubat-Enlil”
  • Spanish: “Tell Leilan”
  • Swedish: “Tell Leilan”
  • Turkish: “Tell Leilan”
  • Urdu: “تل لیلان”

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