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UR

UR, Ur, or ur can refer to several things:
*The City of Ur
*Úr (letter) of the Ogham alphabet
*Ur (rune) ᚢ of the runic alphabets
*Royal Game of Ur
*Ur, the first known continent
*Ur- is a German prefix.
*Ur language
*Urdu language (ISO 639 alpha-2, ur)
*Ur is the name of a minor Gnostic deity.
*Canton of Uri, Switzerland
*Ur, a commune of the Pyrénées-Orientales département, in southwestern France
*University of Regina (Canada)
*Universidad Regiomontana (Mexico)
*University of Richmond (USA)
*University of Rochester (USA)
*Internet slang contraction of "your" or "you're" or "you are"
*Ur was also a code-name of the Polish Karabin przeciwpancerny wz.35 anti-tank rifle
*In Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel Jingo, Ur is a small nation whose inhabitants, according to one character, are "a byword for bucolic stupidity."
* Underground Resistance, techno US music label owned by Mike Banks
*Ur (band) is a surf rock band



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