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- proper noun An ancient
city inSumer andBabylonia , in modern-dayIraq .
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The center of action in the first tablets of the series and in the oldest portions of the epic is the ancient city Uruk, or Erech, in southern Babylonia, invariably spoken of as _Uruk supûri_, that is, the
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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The challenge was to decipher the clay tablets of a literate civilization with beginnings in what is known as the Uruk period, 4000 to 3200
NYT > Home Page By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD 2010
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_ki_, "place," is hardly to be regarded as older than Uruk, which is to be resolved into _uru_, "city," and _ki_, "place," but rather as
An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic Anonymous 1891
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Between the heyday of cities such as Uruk and the rise of the Greeks and Romans, isn't there what you can call a dark age?
My bright idea: Civilisation is still worth striving for Caspar Llewellyn Smith 2010
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Among them are early city-states such as Uruk, legendary home of the hero Gilgamesh; Babylon, capital of Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.); the Assyrian palaces of the ninth through seventh centuries B.C., including Nineveh, which the Bible calls "a city great beyond compare"; and Hatra, with standing buildings of the second and third centuries A.D.
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I did not make this video It was made by "Uruk" another youtube user uk. youtube.com I've heard that people have been flagging this song down so much and removing it from youtube, becuase they dont want us to tell them the truth.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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I did not make this video It was made by "Uruk" another youtube user uk. youtube.com I've heard that people have been flagging this song down so much and removing it from youtube, becuase they dont want us to tell them the truth.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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I did not make this video It was made by "Uruk" another youtube user uk. youtube.com I've heard that people have been flagging this song down so much and removing it from youtube, becuase they dont want us to tell them the truth.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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I did not make this video It was made by "Uruk" another youtube user uk. youtube.com I've heard that people have been flagging this song down so much and removing it from youtube, becuase they dont want us to tell them the truth.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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I did not make this video It was made by "Uruk" another youtube user uk. youtube.com I've heard that people have been flagging this song down so much and removing it from youtube, becuase they dont want us to tell them the truth.
WN.com - Articles related to Aquino says Philippines to be more investor friendly 2010
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