Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors:
P. Flensted Jensen, Chris de Lisle, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, Eric Kansa, Francis Deblauwe, Rune Rattenborg
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History
Uruk was an ancient Sumerian (and later Babylonian) city located on the Euphrates river. At its height (ca. 2900 BC), Uruk's population may have topped 50,000 people and its walls enclosed an area of more than six square kilometers, making it the largest city in the world at that point in time.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912986
31.3233750109, 45.6390521574
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location: Uruk (4000 BC - 2000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Warkāʼ (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Erech (Akkadian, modern)
- Orcheni (unspecified date range)
- Orchoe (30 BC - AD 640)
- Orchoē (Ancient Greek, 540 BC - 30 BC)
- Orikut (30 BC - AD 640)
- Tall al-Warkāʾ (Modern Standard Arabic, unspecified date range)
- Tulūl al-Warkāʾ (Modern Standard Arabic)
- Unu(g) (Sumerian, 2950 BC - 2350 BC)
- Unug (2335 BC - 2000 BC)
- Uruk (750 BC - AD 640)
- Uruk (German, 6200 BC - AD 226)
- Uruk (Akkadian, 2000 BC - 650 BC)
- Warka (German, AD 632 - AD 750)
- Warka (English, AD 632 - AD 750)
- وركاء (Warkāʼ: Arabic, modern)
- Warqa (2000 BC - 650 BC)
- al-Warkāʾ (Modern Standard Arabic)
- ʾrk (Aramaic, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut connection Euphrates (river) (unspecified date range)
- Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut part of (regional) Sumer (6500 BC - AD 640)
- Antioch on the Ishtar Canal located near Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Eanna located at Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut (3000 BC - 100 BC)
- Ehiliana located at Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut (1600 BC - 540 BC)
- Enirgalana located at Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut (720 BC - 540 BC)
- Sūrānu located near Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut (720 BC - 540 BC)
urban area, settlement, archaeological site, findspot, place of finding
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Warka IRQ
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, P. Flensted Jensen, Chris de Lisle, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, W. Röllig, B. Siewert-Mayer, Eric Kansa, Francis Deblauwe, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912986> [accessed: 18 January 2026]
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