Bronze Age Sites in Syria and the Levant
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The co-ordinates of sites listed with a ? are uncertain: either the reference is inexact or tentative, or the location’s attribution is unsafe. Please feel free to suggest updates and provide corrections.
Syrian and Levantine Sites
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| Alalah/Alalakh (mod. Tell Atchana) Amorite city founded MBA. | 
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| Carchemish City inhabited from the Neolithic and later a Hittite centre. |
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| Dor (class Dora, mod. Tel Dor) Port and latter Tjeker settlement site. |
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| Ebla (mod. Tell Mardikh) Imperial city founded in the Neolithic. Destroyed by the Hittites. |
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| Emar (mod. Tell Meskene) Bronze Age trading center. |
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| Gibala (mod. Tell Tweini)
? City founded c.2400 BCE and occupied into classical times. |
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| Halpa (mod. Aleppo) Major site dating back to the EBA at least. |
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| Harran (anc. Carrhae) Major center first inhabited in the Chalcolithic. |
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| Kadesh (mod. Tell Nebi Mend) City dating back to the Chalcolithic. |
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| Mari (mod. Tell Hariri) Semitic city state dating to the EBA. |
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| Maʾḫadu (mod. Minet el Beida) Ugarit’s port. |
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| Qatna/Qatanum (mod. Tell al-Mishrifeh) Semitic city from the Late Chalcolithic. |
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| Raʾšu (mod. Tell Ras Ibn Hani) Port of Ugarit |
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| Suksi (mod. Tell Sukas) Ugaritic city founded above abandoned Neolithic settlement. Partially destroyed at the end of LBA, but reoccupied short after. |
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| Sumur/Simyra, capital of the kingdom of Amurru (mod. Tell Kazel). LBA trading centre |
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| Tell Kabri Major MBA Canaanite centre with occupancy stretching back into the Neolithic. Abandoned c.1500 BCE, the site was reoccupied as a village through the LBA. |
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| Terqa (mod. Tell Ashara) City by the Euphrates variously under the control of many nearby states. |
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| Tuttul (mod. Tell Bi’a) MBA town. |
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| Tzur (class. Tyre, mod. Tyr) Fortified island city port founded during EBA that rose to prominence in the Iron Age. |
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| Ugarit Neolithic walled city destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age. |
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| Washukanni (mod. Tel al-Fakhairyeh)
? Capital of the Hurrian kingdom of Mitanni, from c.1500 BCE to c.1250 BCE. |
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