UR
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UR, Ur, or ur can refer to several things:
- The City of Ur
- Úr (letter) ᚒ 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"
- 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