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    Tell Brak (Nagar, Nawar) was an ancient city in Syria; its remains constitute a tell located in the Upper Khabur region, near the modern village of Tell...
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    large site of Tell Brak in Syria shows, which encourages us to imagine the phenomenon from a more 'symmetrical' angle. Indeed, at Tell Brak, we find that...
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  • The Tell Brak Head is an important prehistoric Middle Eastern sculpture found at the ancient site of Tell Brak in Syria. It has been part of the British...
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    Battle of Tell Hamis and Tell Brak was fought between the end of December 2013 and the start of January 2014 over control of the town of Tell Hamis and...
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  • Brak, Libya, a city in Libya Brak Airport Tell Brak, an ancient city in Syria Tell Brak (village), a village in Syria Brak (title) (or Braque), former...
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    Tell Halaf Tell Brak Tell Sabi Abyad Tell Arpachiyah Tepe Gawra Chagar Bazar The Halaf culture is a prehistoric period which lasted between about 6100...
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  • MFS were unable to hold Tell Brak and failed to capture Tel Hamis, and the offensive was called off in early January. Tell Brak was captured on February...
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    and Ebla. Excavation at the modern site of Tell Brak has suggested that the Akkadians rebuilt a city ("Brak" or "Nagar") on this site, for use as an administrative...
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  • The Brak Show is an American adult animated sitcom created by Jim Fortier, Andy Merrill, and Pete Smith for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block...
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  • Tell Brak (Arabic: تل براك, Kurdish: Til Birak), also spelled Tal Brak, is a village in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, northeastern Syria. It is the...
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  • Hamoukar (redirect from Tell Hamoukar)
    earliest settlement of Tell Brak: ... new indicators of social complexity appeared simultaneously with dramatic settlement expansion at Brak and Khirbat al-Fakhar...
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    urbanisation. Alternatively, a number of proto-urban population centres such as Tell Brak in Northern Mesopotamia in the fourth millennium B.C. can be considered...
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    malevolent gazes. Similarly, the Eye-Idols (c. 8700–3500 BC) excavated at the Tell Brak Eye Temple are believed to have been figurines offered to the gods, and...
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    “Excavations at Tell Brak, 1983-84.” Iraq, vol. 47, 1985, pp. 159–73 UR, JASON, et al. “THE SPATIAL DIMENSIONS OF EARLY MESOPOTAMIAN URBANISM: THE TELL BRAK SUBURBAN...
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    dog identified as being of the greyhound/saluki form were excavated at Tell Brak in modern Syria, and dated as being approximately 4,000 years old. Dogs...
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    8 kilometers north of the ancient city of Nagar (Tell Brak). The earliest layers discovered at Tell Barri date to the Halaf period. Barri was in the fertile...
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    including those without later Proto-Elamite and proto-cuneiform tablets, like Tell Brak, Habuba Kabira, Tepe Hissar, Godin Tepe and Jebel Aruda. Linear Elamite...
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    height around 54 cm, compared to a Saluki, appearing in the excavations of Tell Brak dated approximately 4,000 years before present. The earliest complete...
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    is a tell, or settlement mound, in northern Al-Hasakah Governorate, Syria. It is a short distance from the major ancient city of Nagar (Tell Brak). The...
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  • (princely state), former autonomous princely state Nagar, Syria (modern Tell Brak), an ancient city Nagar (surname), people with the surname Nagar Nagar...
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    dispose of the murderer. A tablet was found in a Mitanni building at Tell Brak which stated it was witnessed "in the presence of Tushratta, the king"...
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    been produced at specialized centers such as Tell Arpachiyah, Tell Brak, Chagar Bazar and Tell Halaf. At Tell Arpachiyah, beneath the upper Ubaid-dated levels...
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    dog identified as being of the greyhound/saluki form was excavated at Tell Brak in modern Syria, and dated to approximately 4,000 years before present...
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  • with Cartoon Network character Brak for the latter's variety show special, Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak and related album in 2000. Sham...
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    Urkesh (Tell Mozan) Nuzi (Yorghan Tepe) Nagar (Tell Brak) Shehna and Shubat-Enlil (Tell Leilan) Kahat (Tell Barri) Nabada (Tell Beydar) Tell Tuneinir...
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  • Brak Presents the Brak Show Starring Brak is a two-part live-action/animated musical comedy television special that aired on Cartoon Network on February...
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    (Birs Nimrud) Kutha (Tell Ibrahim) Der (al-Badra) Eshnunna (Tell Asmar) Nagar (Tell Brak) 2 (2an outlying city in northern Mesopotamia) Apart from Mari...
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  • the later capital of the state of Lagash, was situated 25 km NW of Lagash (Tell al Hiba), though both sites are frequently referred as Lagash. According...
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    Oppenheim at Tell Halaf that was purchased in 1920. More material followed from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar and Tell Brak in 1935–1938...
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    Archaeologists have found evidence of squatting at the ancient city of Tell Brak (in what is now Syria). Armenian refugees squatted in the 1920s and more...
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