Ur Kaśdim
settlement
city in southern Iraq mentioned as the birthplace of Abraham in the Hebrew Bible
Location: 30.9622, 46.1044
Who is recorded here
About the place
Ur Kasdim, commonly translated as Ur of the Chaldees, is a city mentioned in the Hebrew Bible as the birthplace of Abram, the patriarch of the Israelites and the Ishmaelites. In 1862, Henry Rawlinson identified Ur Kaśdim with Tell el-Muqayyar (Ur) near Nasiriyah in the Baghdad Eyalet of Ottoman Iraq.
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