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Tall al Hibā (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 31 25 12 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 31.4205 decimal degrees |
Long: 046 24 28 E degrees minutes |
Long: 46.4084 decimal degrees |
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Note: Considered to be the location of the ancient Sumerian city of Lagash, one of the oldest cities of the ancient Near East; located northwest of the junction of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, east of Uruk, about 14 miles east of Ash-Shaṭrah, Iraq. Was the religious center of the Lagash state. |
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Tall al Hibā (preferred,C,V)
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Tell al-Hiba (C,V)
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al-Hiba (C,V,S)
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el-Hibeh (C,V)
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Lagash (H,V,LC)
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Lakash (H,V)
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Ṭalʿah (C,V)
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Girsu (C,V)
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Telloh (C,V)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Maysān (governorate) (P) |
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deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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probably founded in 6th millennium BCE |
archaeological site (C) |
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ancient site (C) |
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tell (C) |
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inhabited place (H) |
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Sumerian (H) |
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religious center (H) |
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Ash-Shaṭrah .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Al-ʻIrāq, Dhī Qār) [1079409] |
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