...Many scholars have suggested that Ur of the Chaldees is to be identified with the modern city of Şanlıurfa or Urfa (formerly known as Edessa), in southern Turkey, which is not far from Haran, and suitably north east of Ebla. The oldest known name of this city was something like Ur - the Syriac form is Ourhoï, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edessa%2C_Mesopotamia. In fact according to the same page "Due to similarity of names, folk mythology in Islam connects Edessa with Ur as the abode of Abraham", but there may be more to it than the similarity of names (and the supposed derivation from the name Chosroes may be incorrect).
Secondly, wasn't Ur of the Chaldeas a different city than Ur of the Sumerians? I thought that was a reference found among the Ebla tablets. Correct me if I am mistaken, but my understanding is that Ur of the Chaldeans was a city to the north east of Ebla whose ruins have yet to be found, while Ur of the Sumerians was to the south east.
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