Marad
Marad was an ancient Near Eastern city. Marad was situated on the west bank of the then western branch of the Upper Euphrates River west of Nippur in modern-day Iraq and roughly 50 km southeast of Kish, on the Arahtu River.Photo: علي خالد الموسوي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: علي خالد الموسوي, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: archaeological site in Iraq
- Also known as: “Tell as-Sadoum”
Marad
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Al-Qadisiyah Governorate, Iraq, Middle East, Asia
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Latitude
32.07098° or 32° 4′ 16″ northLongitude
44.78597° or 44° 47′ 10″ eastOpen location code
8H463QCP+99OpenStreetMap ID
way 545802089OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q1183843
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Marad” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ماراد”
- Bashkir: “Марад”
- Basque: “Marad”
- Bulgarian: “Марад”
- Catalan: “Marad”
- Dutch: “Marad”
- Dutch: “Tell as-Sadoum”
- French: “Marad”
- Hebrew: “מרד”
- Italian: “Marad”
- Japanese: “マラド”
- Korean: “마라드”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Marad”
- Norwegian: “Marad”
- Persian: “ماراد”
- Polish: “Marad”
- Russian: “Марад”
- Spanish: “Marad”
- Spanish: “Marda”
- Spanish: “Wanna-wa-Sadum”
- Spanish: “Wannat es-Sadum”
- Urdu: “ماراد”
- Vietnamese: “Marad”
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