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Ugarit

Ancient port city in northern Syria

Placecity-state historical country tributary stateQ191369

Also known as Ras Shamra

Country: Syria
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Sources
1.Stated in GeoNamesRetrieved 2015-04-06
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Located in: Latakia Governorate
, Phoenicia
Founded: 6th millennium BCE

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Ugarit was an ancient Levantine coastal city located in what is today northern Syria, at a site known in Arabic as Ras Shamra or Tell Shamra. Since its discovery in 1928, the site has revealed the oldest known systematic use of an alphabet. Ugaritic texts were written in a previously unknown Northwest Semitic tongue—the Ugaritic language. Archaeological excavations of Ugarit show evidence of occupation since the 8th millennium BC. Research has focused on the late Bronze Age levels; relatively little is known about earlier occupation.

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47 statements · 21% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations

Dissolved: 1190s BCE instance of: statement with Gregorian date earlier than 1584
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1.antiquitatis-notae.univ-paris1.fr/freufinougarit.pdf
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Culture: Canaan
Native label: 𐎜𐎂𐎗𐎚

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36 identifiers linking Ugarit across the web's reference databases

35.6019, 35.7856OpenStreetMap ↗

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