Ur

commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, France

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Place details

Locality: Ur
Region: Occitanie
Country: France
Population: 337

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Key facts

Country: France
Region: Occitania
Department: Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement: Prades
Canton: Les Pyrénées catalanes
Intercommunality: Pyrénées Cerdagne
Mayor 2020 2026: Francis Gantou
Area: 6.79 km (2.62 sq mi)
Density: 56.3/km (146/sq mi)
Time zone: UTC+01:00 ( CET )
Summer dst: UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
Insee postal code: 66218 /66760
Elevation: 1,155–1,540 m (3,789–5,052 ft) , (avg. 1,250 m or 4,100 ft)

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Ur
Population: 382
Area: 6.79
Elevation: 1270
Official website: www.ville-ur.fr
Image: Ur eg5.JPG

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Commons category: Ur (Pyrénées-Orientales)
postal code: 66760
male population: 175
female population: 188
P8168: Ilsenburg House
email address: mailto:[email protected]
phone number: +33-4-68-04-82-91
fax number: +33-4-68-04-94-41

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thumb|200px|A Mandaean house of worship in central Nasiriyah. Nasiriyah was founded in 1872 and became a major center of trade in Ottoman Iraq. The areas around the city is the ancestral home of many Mandaeans, an ethnoreligious group that were probably the first to practice baptism and are the last surviving Gnostics from antiquity. Today, only a few hundred families remain.

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There is a called The Ahwar of Southern Iraq: Refuge of Biodiversity and the Relict Landscape of the Mesopotamian Cities. "Ahwar" translates as "marshland" and the region is listed partly for the wetlands flora and fauna. However, the listing also includes several cities of ancient Sumer. thumb|300px|Ruins of Ur.