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Ur
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1. ur
an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates River
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Ur
see synonyms of urnoun
an ancient city of Sumer located on a former channel of the Euphrates
abbreviation for
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you are
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your
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Ur
see synonyms of ur ancient Sumerian city on the Euphrates River, in what is now S Iraq
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Ur
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Original; prototypical: ur-feminist; ur-language.
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 BC and is mentioned in the Bible as the birthplace of Abraham. The city declined after the sixth century BC.
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