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Tagsnagar
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇸🇾 Syria · Pyramid
Late Chalcolithic (Uruk Expansion) · Uruk-influenced North Mesopotamian (Nagar)
Late Chalcolithic Eye Temple platform at Tell Brak (Nagar) c.3800 BCE: 40×30 m earliest monumental terrace with alabaster eye idols — millennium precursor to ziggurat.
🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city
Chalcolithic to Mitanni-Akkadian to Late Bronze · North Mesopotamian (Uruk → Akkadian → Hurrian)
Huge early city ('city without a state' per Oates) occupied 6000 BCE–1300 CE, peaking as Nagar kingdom (2600–2200 BCE) with Mitanni palace (1500 BCE) and Akkadian Naram-Sin palace.
🇮🇳 India · Temple complex
Early Chalukya 7th–8th century CE, peak 740–760 CE · Hindu (Shaiva, Vaishnava) under Chalukya Vikramaditya II
Chalukya structural temples laboratory fusing Nagara and Dravida shikhara styles.
