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:''This article is about the Iraqi village near Larsa. For the Iraqi commercial center, see Qalat Sukkar.'' Qalat Sukar (Qal`at Saqr) is village in southern Iraq in the Dhi Qar Governorate. It is located on a ridge west of the Gharraf Canal (the old canal that the Sumerians dug up some 4000 years ago). Qalat Sukar is 6 km northeast of the remains of the ancient Sumerian city of Larsa.〔("31.3333°,45.8828° – 31.2858°,45.8536° : 5.964 km / 3.707 m (great circle distance)" (distance between Qalat Sukar and Larsa Tell) ), Movable Type Scripts, accessed 19 February 2009〕 A modern drainage canal separates Qalat Sukar from Larsa Tell.〔 Because of the name, and the former marshlands in the area,〔Dougherty, Raymond P. (1926) "An Archæological Survey in Southern Babylonia I" ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'' No. 23, pp. 15–28, p. 20〕 it is likely that Qalat Sukar was originally the site of a sugar mill,〔''cf.'' Tell es-Sukkar page 64 in Ibrahim, Mo 'Awiyah; Sauer, James Abbott and Yassine, Khair (1976) "The East Jordan Valley Survey, 1975" ''Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research'' No. 222, pp. 41–66〕 after sugarcane was introduced into the area in the 9th century.〔Yeats, John (1887) ''The Natural History of the Raw Materials of Commerce'' (3rd ed.) George Philip & Son, London, p. 177, 〕 The nearest city is An Nasiriyah, Iraq with a population of 587,000. ==Notes== 〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Qalat Sukar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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