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Eb•la
Pronunciation: (eb'lu, ē'blu), [key]—
n.
an ancient city whose remains are located near Aleppo in present-day Syria, the site of the discovery in 1974–75 of cuneiform tablets
(Eb'la Tab'lets) documenting a thriving culture of the third millennium b.c.
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