Lagash
Americannoun
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The region's city-states -- Ur, Uruk, and Lagash among them -- developed complex political and religious systems that became the blueprint for later societies.
From Science Daily • Oct. 27, 2025
Gleick traces the history of conflicts to the first known war over water nearly 4,500 years ago between the ancient Sumerian city-states of Lagash and Umma in what is now southern Iraq.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 28, 2023
The digs at Lagash, which was first excavated in 1968, had shut down after 1990, and the site remained dormant until 2019.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 1, 2023
In his 1941 short story "Nightfall", Isaac Asimov takes us to Lagash, a planet deep in a globular cluster surrounded by not one, not two, not three – but six nearby stars.
From The Guardian • Dec. 19, 2012
Afterwards, Lagash became the general name for the capitol through being the quarter where the great palace of the king was erected.
From The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria by Jastrow, Morris
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