Ebla: Meaning and Definition of

Eb•la

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