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The 22 pages that link to Ur, each with the reason it gives.

• MesopotamiaBroader topic: Its royal tombs and temples preserve evidence of wealth and political power.

• SumerBroader topic: Its royal tombs and architecture preserve evidence of Sumerian power and wealth.

• Ubaid periodBroader topic: Its early occupation connects Ubaid settlement history with the later growth of urban centers.

• Third Dynasty of UrBroader topic: The dynasty ruled from Ur and made the city a focus of royal construction.

• NippurRelated: Ur’s rulers competed for regional power while also patronizing Nippur’s religious institutions.

• Sumerian city-statesBroader topic: Ur shows how a Sumerian city could become the center of a powerful kingdom.

• Ur-NammuRelated: Ur-Nammu made this city the seat of his dynasty.

• EriduCompared with: Ur became a powerful neighbor whose political prominence differed from Eridu’s chiefly sacred and legendary prestige.

• Sumerian literatureRelated: Its royal and temple settings appear in texts and in the history of tablet discovery.

• EnheduannaRelated: Enheduanna served as high priestess at Ur, a major center of Nanna’s worship.

• Code of Ur-NammuRelated: The king associated with the code ruled from this city.

• Mesopotamian city-stateBroader topic: Ur’s wealth and monuments show the resources a powerful city-state could command.

• NabonidusRelated: Nabonidus restored its temple as part of his support for Sîn’s worship.

• Ziggurat of UrNarrower topic: The ziggurat stood at the religious and civic heart of this Sumerian city.

• Royal Game of UrNarrower topic: The game's familiar name comes from this city, where early boards were excavated.

• KenorlandCompared with: Its reconstruction offers a different account of early continental organization than Kenorland.

• GutiansRelated: Ur became the center of the dynasty that followed Gutian dominance.

• NasiriyahRelated: The nearby ruins make Nasiriyah a gateway to one of southern Iraq’s major archaeological sites.

• VaalbaraCompared with: Competing early-continent reconstructions complicate claims that Vaalbara was the first supercontinent.

• ChaldeaBroader topic: Ur lay within the southern Babylonian landscape associated with Chaldea.

• Culture of IraqBroader topic: Its archaeological remains reveal the deep history beneath modern Iraqi identity.

• Jemdet Nasr periodRelated: Finds at Ur document material and administrative changes associated with this phase.