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Nippur

Sumer's foremost religious city, seat of the god Enlil; control of its Ekur temple conferred legitimacy on Mesopotamian kings for millennia.

Dated events and their evidence

• 5,000 BCE mainstream
  occupation begins (Ubaid period) source
• 2,350 BCE mainstream
  conquered by the Akkadian kings (Sargon, Naram-Sin) source
• 2,100 BCE mainstream
  Ur-Nammu rebuilds the Ekur ziggurat (Ur III) source

Where

32.1264° N, 45.2334° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.2307/4200399
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nippur

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