Accad in Biblical History

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What is Accad?
AC'CAD
(fortress), one of the four cities in the kingdom of Nimrod. Gen 10:10. It was in the land of Shinar, and George Smith locates it at Ayudi, on the Euphrates, north of Babylon. Rawlinson places it at Aker-Kuf, 10 miles west by north of Bagdad. Others had regarded it as identical with Celeriphon.

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