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  • Harran

  • Harran

    Harran was a major ancient city in Upper Mesopotamia whose site is near the modern village of Altınbaşak in Şanlıurfa Province, Turkey. The city is dating back to the Bronze Age in the 3rd millennium BC.
    The site is one of the elements included in the UNESCO Tentative List for World Heritage designation, Harran and Sanliurfa.
    UNESCO Tentative List
    Harran
    by Verity Cridland, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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    Harran

    UNESCO Tentative List

    Date of Submission

    2000

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    Historic Cities and Regions

    Location

    Turkey

    Şanlıurfa

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    Third Millennium BC

    Bronze Age

    Assyrian + Hittite + Babylonian + Persian + Hellenistic + Ro

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    Mixed Monuments

     

     

     

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