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  2. Umma - Wikipedia

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    Umma. Umma (Sumerian: 𒄑𒆵𒆠 umma KI; [1] in modern Dhi Qar Province in Iraq, was an ancient city in Sumer. There is some scholarly debate about the Sumerian and Akkadian names for this site. [2] Traditionally, Umma was identified with Tell Jokha.

  3. Larsa - Wikipedia

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    Larsa (Sumerian: 𒌓𒀕𒆠, romanized: UD.UNUGKI, [1] read Larsamki[2]), also referred to as Larancha/Laranchon (Gk. Λαραγχων) by Berossos and connected with the biblical Ellasar, was an important city-state of ancient Sumer, the center of the cult of the sun god Utu with his temple E-babbar. It lies some 25 km (16 mi) southeast of ...

  4. Sumer - Wikipedia

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    The first true city-states arose in Sumer, roughly contemporaneously with similar entities in what are now Syria and Lebanon. Several centuries after the invention of cuneiform, the use of writing expanded beyond debt/payment certificates and inventory lists to be applied for the first time, about 2600 BC, to messages and mail delivery, history ...

  5. Nippur - Wikipedia

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    Nippur (Sumerian: Nibru, often logographically recorded as 𒂗 𒆤 𒆠, EN.LÍL KI, "Enlil City;" [1] Akkadian: Nibbur) was an ancient Sumerian city. It was the special seat of the worship of the Sumerian god Enlil, the "Lord Wind", ruler of the cosmos, subject to An alone.

  6. History of Sumer - Wikipedia

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    Alabaster, Early Dynastic III (2550–2500 BC); found in Telloh, ancient city of Girsu. The history of Sumer spans the 5th to 3rd millennia BCE in southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with the downfall of the Third Dynasty of Ur around ...

  7. Ur - Wikipedia

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    Ur[a] was an important Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar[b] (Arabic: تَلّ ٱلْمُقَيَّر, lit. ' mound of bitumen ') in Dhi Qar Governorate, southern Iraq.

  8. Kish (Sumer) - Wikipedia

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    Kish is located 12 km (7.5 mi) east of the ancient city of Babylon and 80 km (50 mi) south of modern Baghdad. The Kish archaeological site is an oval area roughly 8 by 3 km (5 by 2 mi), transected into east and west sections by the dry former bed of the Euphrates River , encompassing around 40 mounds scattered over an area of about 24 square ...

  9. Girsu - Wikipedia

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    Girsu (Sumerian Ĝirsu; [1] cuneiform ĝir2-su ki 𒄈𒋢𒆠) was a city of ancient Sumer, situated some 25 km (16 mi) northwest of Lagash, at the site of what is now Tell Telloh in Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq. As the religious center of the kingdom of Lagash, it contained significant temples to the god Ningirsu (E-ninnu) and his wife Bau and ...