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Tell Mardikh (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 35 47 52 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.7980 decimal degrees |
| Long: 036 47 52 E degrees minutes |
Long: 36.7980 decimal degrees |
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Note: Ancient city-state located ca. 30 miles SW of Aleppo; a commercial power that controlled most of Syria; early Bronze Age city destroyed ca. 2250 BCE and again ca. 2000 BCE; fortified in middle Bronze Age; finally completely destroyed by Hittites ca. 1600 BCE. |
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| Tell Mardikh (preferred,C,V)
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| Ebla (C,V,S)
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| تل مرديخ, (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| إبلا, (C,V,Arabic,U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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Ḩalab (governorate) (P) |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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site of an ancient metropolis of a pre-Canaanite Semitic culture dating from ca. 2400-2000 BC |
| archaeological site (C) |
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excavated 1960s-1970s; in 1975 some 15,000 cuneiform clay tablets were found in palace ruins |
| tell (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| city-state (H) |
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flourished ca. 2400 BC to ca. 1600 BC |
| Bronze Age (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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| near/adjacent to .... |
Aleppo .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Syria, Ḩalab) [7002252] |
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