Ur

Ur was the one of the world's first cities, in Mesopotamia.^[1] It was a Sumerian city-state, founded around 3,800 BC. There are written records dating from the 26th century. Ur was once a coastal city near the mouth of the River Euphrates on the Persian Gulf. It is now well inland, south of the Euphrates on its right bank, 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from Nasiriyah, Iraq.^{[2][better source needed]}

1. ↑ Edwards, I.E.S.; Gadd, C.J.; Hammond, N.G.L. (1970). The Cambridge Ancient History. Cambridge University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-521-07051-5.
2. ↑ Ebeling, Erich; Meissner, Bruno; Calmeyer, Peter; Weidner, Ernst Friedrich; Edzard, Dietz Otto (1997). Reallexikon der Assyriologie und vorderasiatischen Archaologie: Meek - Mythologie. W. de Gruyter. p. 360. ISBN 978-3-11-014809-1.