Nippur

ancient city in modern day Iraq
Place archaeological_site Q188395
Nippur
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Nippur

Summary

Nippur is an archaeological site[1]. Nippur ranks in the top 2% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Nippur is located in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate[3].
  • Nippur is in the country of Iraq[4].
  • Nippur's image is recorded as Ruins from a temple in Naffur.jpg[5].
  • Nippur's instance of is recorded as archaeological site[6].
  • Nippur's instance of is recorded as ancient city[7].
  • Nippur's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 13144647638200048240[8].
  • Nippur's GND ID is recorded as 4042365-7[9].
  • Nippur's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85092013[10].
  • Nippur's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11945161c[11].
  • Nippur's IdRef ID is recorded as 02740157X[12].
  • Nippur's location is recorded as Mesopotamia[13].
  • Nippur's Commons category is recorded as Nippur[14].
  • Nippur's located in time zone is recorded as UTC+03:00[15].
  • Nippur's coordinate location is recorded as {'lat': 32.126111111111, 'lon': 45.230833333333}[16].
  • Nippur's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0lpt6[17].
  • Nippur's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ge130180[18].
  • Nippur's significant event is recorded as archaeological excavation[19].
  • Nippur's significant event is recorded as archaeological excavation[20].
  • Nippur's National Library of Israel ID is recorded as 000721161[21].
  • Nippur's Gran Enciclopèdia Catalana ID is recorded as 0046145[22].
  • Nippur's described by source is recorded as Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron[23].
  • Nippur's described by source is recorded as Grove Art Online[24].
  • Nippur's described by source is recorded as Reallexikon der Assyriologie[25].
  • Nippur's described by source is recorded as Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition[26].
  • Nippur's described by source is recorded as The New Student's Reference Work[27].

Body

Geography

Nippur is in the country of Iraq[4]. Nippur is located in Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate[3].

Physical Characteristics

Nippur's area is recorded as {'unit': 'Q35852', 'amount': '+150'}[28].

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include archaeological site[6] and ancient city[7]. Nippur's heritage designation is recorded as Tentative World Heritage Site[29].

Why It Matters

Nippur ranks in the top 2% of archaeological_site entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (360 views/month).[2] Nippur has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[30] Nippur is known by 12 alternative names across languages and contexts.[31]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] . wikidata.org.
  4. [7] . wikidata.org.
  5. [3] . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . Czech National Authority Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.
  26. [29] . wikidata.org.
  27. [28] . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [30] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [31] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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