ancient city of Mesopotamia, now in southeastern Iraq. It lies northeast of the town of Ad-Dwnyah. Although never a political capital, Nippur played ... [12 related articles]
Ancient city of Sumer and Babylonia, about 161 km/100 mi southeast of Baghdad. As the principal centre of the worship of Enlil, the chief Sumerian god, it had...
an ancient Sumerian and Babylonian city in SE Iraq: partially excavated.