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Melitene

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T.B. Mitford

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified May 20, 2023 04:32 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Melitene was an ancient city on the Tohma River. It was the station of Legio XII Fulminata from AD 70 onwards.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/629040

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.382217, 38.361152

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Arslantepe (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Eski Malatya (Turkish, 18000 BC - AD 2000)
- Malatya (Turkish, 1450 BC - AD 2000)
- Malaṭiya (Modern Standard Arabic, 1200 BC - AD 1918)
- Malaṭya (AD 632 - AD 1918)
- Malaṭya (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 2000)
- Malaṭīya (AD 600 - AD 1500)
- Malaṭīyah (AD 850 - AD 1200)
- Malitija (Hittite, 1450 BC - 1200 BC)
- Meliddu (Akkadian, 1200 BC - 330 BC)
- Melidu (Akkadian, 1200 BC - 330 BC)
- Melitena (AD 1099 - AD 1291)
- Melitene (750 BC - AD 640)
- Melitēna (AD 1099 - AD 1291)
- Melitēnē (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 1500)
- Rhōmanopolis (Ancient Greek, AD 750 - AD 940)
- Rōmanopolis (AD 750 - AD 940)
- XII Fulminata garrison (English, 140 BC - AD 640)
- mlz (Aramaic, 540 BC - 330 BC)
Ethnic Names:
- Malidāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 720 BC)
- Meliddāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- Melidāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)

Melitene makes connections with:

Melitene succeeds Arslantepe (Melid) (unspecified date range)
Melitene connection Unnamed road (unspecified date range)

Melitene receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 64 G4 Melitene

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Eski Malatya

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Suggested citation:
T.B. Mitford, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Melitene: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/629040> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/629040 |title=Places: 629040 (Melitene) |author=Mitford, T. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 11:53 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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