Sippar
Sippar was an ancient Near Eastern Sumerian and later Babylonian city on the east bank of the Euphrates river. Its tell is located at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah near Yusufiyah in Iraq's Baghdad Governorate, some 69 km north of Babylon and 30 km southwest of Baghdad.- Type: Hill
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Tell Abu Habbah”, “Zimbir”, and “𒌓𒄒𒉣𒆠”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Yusufiyah.
Sippar
- Categories: human settlement, archaeological site, historic site, and landform
- Location: Mahmudiya District, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
33.0595° or 33° 3′ 34″ northLongitude
44.2553° or 44° 15′ 19″ eastOpen location code
8H563754+R4OpenStreetMap ID
way 456641882OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteOpenStreetMap feature
natural=hillWikidata ID
Q619707
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Sippar” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيبار”
- Asturian: “Sippar”
- Bashkir: “Сиппар”
- Basque: “Sippar”
- Belarusian: “Сіпар”
- Catalan: “Sippar”
- Catalan: “Zimbir”
- Cebuano: “Abu Habba”
- Central Kurdish: “سیپار”
- Chinese: “西帕尔”
- Chinese: “辛比爾”
- Croatian: “Sipar”
- Croatian: “Sippar”
- Czech: “Sippar”
- Dutch: “Sippar”
- Dutch: “Sippara”
- Dutch: “Zimber”
- Dutch: “Zimbir”
- Esperanto: “Sippar”
- Esperanto: “Zimbir”
- Finnish: “Sippar”
- French: “Sippar”
- French: “Zimbir”
- Georgian: “სიფარი”
- German: “Sippar”
- German: “Tell Abu Habbah”
- German: “Zimbir”
- Hebrew: “סיפר”
- Hungarian: “Szippar”
- Indonesian: “Sipar”
- Irish: “Sippar”
- Italian: “Sippar”
- Japanese: “シッパル”
- Korean: “시파르”
- Korean: “짐비르”
- Latin: “Sippara”
- Lithuanian: “Siparas”
- Maori: “Sippar”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sippar”
- Norwegian: “Sippar”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sippar”
- Persian: “سیپار”
- Polish: “Sippar”
- Portuguese: “Sipar”
- Portuguese: “Sippar”
- Portuguese: “Tel Abu Haba”
- Romanian: “Sippar”
- Russian: “Сиппар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sippar”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Zimbir”
- Slovak: “Sippar”
- Slovenian: “Sipar”
- South Azerbaijani: “سیپار”
- Spanish: “Sippar”
- Swedish: “Sippar”
- Tagalog: “Sippar”
- Tamil: “சிப்பர்”
- Turkish: “Sippar”
- Ukrainian: “Сіппар”
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