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Uruk colonies in Syria · Mysteria

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Uruk colonies in Syria

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Uruk colonies

🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Tell Habuba Kabira (Ursu?)

Late Uruk (LC5) southern colony · Uruk (southern Mesopotamian)

Uruk planned colonial city (c.3500–3300 BCE, LC5, contemporary with Jemdet Nasr south) on Euphrates terrace — mother colony that proved Uruk expansion: fully gridded 18-ha walled town built ex novo…

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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Jebel Aruda

Late Uruk (LC5) · Uruk colony cult centre

Uruk hill-citadel (c.3500–3300 BCE) perched 160 m above Euphrates on limestone jebel opposite Habuba — sacred twin controlling Uruk colony from above.