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Tušpa (Van)
Tušpa: name of an ancient Urartian fortress on the eastern shore of Lake Thospitis, not far from the modern city of Van. …Tyana (Kemerhisar)
Tyana (Greek Τύανα; modern Kemerhisar): ancient town in southern Cappadocia.Iron Age Ivriz, king Warpalas and the god Tarhunza Tyana was the main…Tyre
Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.Origins …Tyre (3)
Tyre (Phoenician צר, ṣūr, "rock"; Greek Τύρος; Latin Tyrus): port in Phoenicia and one of the main cities in the eastern Mediterranean.The Hellenistic Age …
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Ugarit (Ras Shamra)
Ugarit (Hebrew אוּגָרִית): Bronze Age port in northern Syria, destroyed in the early twelfth century BCE, modern Ras Shamra. Cuneiform tablets illustrate the religion of ancient Canaan, i.e., the gods against which the first Jewish prophets polemicized.History …Ur
Ur: ancient Sumerian city, modern Tell el-Muqayyar. Ur's ziggurat, partly rebuilt Prehistory Ur dates back to the Neolithic Ubaid Period, prior to c.3800…Uruk
Uruk: ancient Sumerian city, modern Warka.Uruk Uruk, Seleucid temple Already an important town in the fourth millennium; in c.3200 BCE it measured…Uthina
Uthina (Greek Οὔθινα): Numidian-Roman city in Africa, modern Oudna.Uthina Uthina, Inscription by soldiers of XIII Gemina Along the river Miliane, upstream from…Utica
Utica (Punic ˁattiq, "old town"): Punic city, forty kilometers northwest of Carthage (Kart hadašt, "new town").Punic Utica Punic funeral stela Old Punic settlement (perhaps the…Vasio (Vaison-la-Romaine)
Vasio: Roman town in central France, modern Vaison-la-Romaine. Roman bridge Vasio was the capital of the Gallic tribe of the Vocontii. Its…Veii
Veii: city in the south of Etruria, one of the first targets of Roman expansion, modern Isola Farnese.Veii Head of the…