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Emar
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🌊 Flooded

Emar

Ancient city · Syria

Abandoned
1186 BC
Founded
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Population
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Coordinates
35.987, 38.110
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Why it was abandoned

🌊 Flooded

Detected automatically from the text: Находился на большой излучине среднего Евфрата на северо-востоке Сирии, где ныне находится побережье водохранилища Эль-Асад.

History

Emar, is an archaeological site at Tell Meskene in the Aleppo Governorate of northern Syria. It sits in the great bend of the mid-Euphrates, now on the shoreline of the man-made Lake Assad near the town of Maskanah.

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