Place
Erech (Uruk)
A city of the beginning of Nimrod's kingdom in Shinar (Gen 10:10).
Location
- Type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 31.3222, 45.6361
- Certainty
- very-high
OpenBible.info: "Uruk (modern): very high confidence" (page fetched 2026-10-17).
OpenBible.info first-ranked identification (Uruk (modern)); representative point 45.636111,31.322222 (lon,lat).
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