• rendering support to display the cuneiform script in this article correctly. Uruk, known today as Warka, was an ancient city in the Near East, located east...
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    The Uruk period (c. 4000 to 3100 BC; also known as Protoliterate period) existed from the protohistoric Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age period in the...
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  • Look up Uruk in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Uruk was a city in ancient Sumer. Uruk may also refer to: Uruk period, the archaeological culture or...
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    Sumerian poems about Gilgamesh (formerly read as Sumerian "Bilgames"), king of Uruk, some of which may date back to the Third Dynasty of Ur (c. 2100 BC). These...
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    Sumer (section Uruk period)
    settlements. The world's earliest known texts come from the Sumerian cities of Uruk and Jemdet Nasr, and date to between c. 3350 – c. 2500 BC, following a period...
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    Gilgamesh (redirect from Gilgamesh of Uruk)
    millennium BC. He was possibly a historical king of the Sumerian city-state of Uruk, who was posthumously deified. His rule probably would have taken place sometime...
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  • the Aegis of Uruk (ドルアーガの塔 〜the Aegis of URUK〜, Druaga no Tō ~the Aegis of URUK~) and its sequel The Tower of Druaga: the Sword of Uruk (ドルアーガの塔 〜the...
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    recorded name of a person in writing. The name "Kushim" is found on several Uruk period (c. 3400–3000 BC) clay tablets used to record transactions of barley...
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  • The Aegis of Uruk (ドルアーガの塔 〜the Aegis of URUK〜, Doruāga no Tō ~ji Ījisu obu Uruku~) and its sequel, The Tower of Druaga: The Sword of Uruk (ドルアーガの塔 ~the...
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    southern Mesopotamia, and is taken to include the prehistoric Ubaid and Uruk periods. Sumer was the region's earliest known civilization and ended with...
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    Uruk GNU/Linux-libre is a PureOS-based Linux distribution. The name Uruk is an Iraqi city that states its Iraqi origin. Uruk GNU/Linux 1.0 was released...
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    commonly worshipped. It is sometimes proposed that the Eanna temple located in Uruk originally belonged to him, rather than Inanna, but while he is well attested...
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  • Orc (redirect from Uruk-hai)
    Orchoth (as a class). They had similar names in other Middle-earth languages: uruk in Black Speech; in the language of the Drúedain gorgûn, "ork-folk"; in Khuzdul...
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    The art of Uruk encompasses the sculptures, seals, pottery, architecture, and other arts produced in Uruk, an ancient city in southern Mesopotamia that...
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    Lament for Uruk, also called the Uruk Lament or the Lament for Unug, is a Sumerian lament. It is dated to the Isin-Larsa period. The Lament for Uruk is one...
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    hegemony over Mesopotamia according to the SKL. This numbering (e.g. Kish I, Uruk IV, Ur III) is not present in the original text. It should also be noted...
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    Enlil: he defeated the city of Uruk and tore down its walls, in the battle of Uruk he won, took Lugalzagesi king of Uruk in the course of the battle, and...
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  • The Uruk Trough is an important Sumerian sculpture found at the site of Uruk, Iraq. It has been part of the British Museum's collection since 1928. Along...
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  • Ürük is a village in the Divriği District of Sivas Province in Turkey. It is populated by Kurds of the Şadiyan tribe and had a population of 65 in 2023...
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  • Fatma Uruk (born in 1988) is a Turkish world record holder female free-diver and school teacher. Fatma Uruk was born in İzmir, Turkey in 1988. Between...
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    fragmentary slab at the Uruk site of Hacınebi has been proposed as a numerical tablet. The earliest tablets found, in the Uruk V period, are of a 'numerical'...
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    Mesopotamian mythology, wartime comrade and friend of Gilgamesh, king of Uruk. Their exploits were composed in Sumerian poems and in the Akkadian Epic...
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    Inanna (category Uruk period)
    patron goddess of the Eanna temple at the city of Uruk, her early main cult center. In archaic Uruk she was worshipped in three forms: morning Inanna...
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    Enmerkar (category Kings of Uruk)
    Enmerkar was an ancient Sumerian ruler to whom the construction of the city of Uruk and a 420-year reign was attributed. According to literary sources, he led...
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    of tongues", and also involves Enmerkar constructing temples at Eridu and Uruk, it has, since the time of Samuel Kramer, been compared with the Tower of...
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  • Gilgamesh was a legendary king of Uruk. Gilgamesh may also refer to: Epic of Gilgamesh, a poem about a legendary king of Uruk Gilgamesh, the protagonist of...
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  • most commonly known under the nickname Kudurru, was a governor of the city Uruk in Babylonia under the rule of Ashurbanipal (r. 669–631 BC) of the Neo-Assyrian...
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    Susa (category Uruk period)
    Louvre Susa came within the Uruk cultural sphere during the Uruk period. An imitation of the entire state apparatus of Uruk, proto-writing, cylinder seals...
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    Therein, writing emerged with a pictographic script, Proto-cuneiform, in the Uruk IV period (c. late 4th millennium BC). The documented record of actual historical...
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  • and Gimli pursue a band of Uruk-hai to save their companions, Merry and Pippin, entering the kingdom of Rohan. The Uruk-hai are ambushed by a group of...
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