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Ur (/ʊr/ or /ɜːr/) was a major Sumerian city-state in ancient Mesopotamia, located at the site of modern Tell el-Muqayyar (Arabic: تَلّ ٱلْمُقَيَّر, lit. 'mound of bitumen') 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…
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ur | Abandoned | After 500 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Archaeologists | John George Taylor, Charles Leonard Woolley, Elizabeth C Stone, Paul Zimansky, Adelheid Otto | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Area | 71 ha (0.27 sq mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Buffer zone | 317 ha (1.22 sq mi) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Built | c. 3800 BC | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Criteria | Mixed: (iii)(v)(ix)(x) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Cultures | Sumerian | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Excavation dates | 1853–1854, 1922–1934, 2015-present | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Inscription | 2016 (40th Session) | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Location | Tell el-Muqayyar, Dhi Qar Governorate, Iraq | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Official name | Ur Archaeological City | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Part of | Ahwar of Southern Iraq | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Periods | Ubaid period to Iron Age | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Reference | 1481-006 | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Region | Mesopotamia, Middle East | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | Type | Settlement | 1.00 | infobox |
| Ur | is a | paraphrase of Genesis | 0.90 | text |
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