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Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors: P. Flensted Jensen, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified Jan 22, 2024 10:03 PM 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.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912986

31.3225064, 45.6388635

urban area, settlement, archaeological site, findspot, place of finding

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 B2 Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Warka IRQ


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A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, P. Flensted Jensen, Carolin Johansson, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Uruk/Orchoe/Erech/Orikut: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912986> [accessed: 28 March 2024]

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