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Hebrew name for ancient Uruk — one of humanity's oldest cities, listed among Nimrod's earliest foundations
MesopotamiaHistorically Verified
Modern Warka in southern Iraq. One of the oldest cities in the world, occupied from around 5500 BC. The site is the legendary home of Gilgamesh and the birthplace of cuneiform writing.
One of the earliest cities of Nimrod's kingdom in Shinar, named in the Table of Nations as the second of four foundations of his Mesopotamian empire — "Babel, Erech, Accad, and Calneh, in the land of Shinar" (Genesis 10:10). It is also the city from which deportees were settled in Samaria during the Assyrian repopulation (Ezra 4:9). Erech is the Hebrew form of ancient Uruk — one of humanity's oldest cities and the home of the legendary king Gilgamesh.
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