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Ur (ûr,

r) Known in biblical times as Ur of the Chal·dees (k

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A city of ancient Sumer in southern Mesopotamia on a site in present-day southeast Iraq. One of the oldest cities in Mesopotamia, it was an important center of Sumerian culture after c. 3000 b.c. and the birthplace of Abraham. The city declined after the sixth century b.c.

Ur [ɜː]

(Placename) an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates

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Ur - an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River

Sumer - an area in the southern region of Babylonia in present-day Iraq; site of the Sumerian civilization of city-states that flowered during the third millennium BC

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