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Ur ( or ) was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar () in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. Although Ur was a coastal city near the mouth of the Euphrates on the Persian Gulf, the coastline has shifted and the site is now well inland, on the south bank of the Euphrates, southwest of the city of Nasiriyah. The city dates from the Ubaid period , and is recorded in written history as a city-state from the 26th century BC, its first recorded king being Mesannepada.
Ur was one of the most important cities in ancient Mesopotamia, located in what is now southern Iraq near the Euphrates River, and it served as a significant city-state beginning around the 26th century BC. The site, now called Tell el-Muqayyar, was originally situated on the coast of the Persian Gulf, though changes in the coastline have left it inland today.
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Key facts
- Ancient site.name
- Ur
- Ancient site.map_type
- Iraq#Near East#West Asia
- Ancient site.relief
- yes
- Ancient site.map_dot_label
- Ur
- Ancient site.location
- Tell el-Muqayyar, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq
- Ancient site.region
- Mesopotamia, Middle East
- Ancient site.type
- Settlement
- Ancient site.abandoned
- After 500 BC
- Ancient site.epochs
- Ubaid period to Iron Age
- Ancient site.cultures
- Sumerian
- Ancient site.excavations
- 1853–1854, 1922–1934, 2015-present
- Ancient site.archaeologists
- John George Taylor, Charles Leonard Woolley, Elizabeth C Stone, Paul Zimansky, Adelheid Otto
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.child
- yes
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Official_name
- Ur Archaeological City
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Part_of
- Ahwar of Southern Iraq
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Type
- Mixed
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.Criteria
- (iii)(v)(ix)(x)
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.ID
- 1481-006
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