Carchemish
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Rune Rattenborg
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History
An ancient city that was part of the Mitanni, Hittite, and Neo-Assyrian Empires (Kargamiš in Hittite; commonly Carchemish). The site was occupied as early as the Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods; evidence for Early Bronze Age cist tombs begins ca. 2400 BC. It was a key commercial center during the time of Ebla and Mari. The Mitanni controlled the site from the sixteenth to the fourteenth centuries and was conquered by Šuppiluliuma ca. 1350 B.C. A famous battle, attested in the Bible, was fought at the site in 605 BC between the Babylonian army under Nebuchadnezzar II and that of the Egyptian Pharaoh Necho II.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658465
36.8294229533, 38.0149205197
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Karkamış (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Carchemish (3000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Carchemish connection Euphrates (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 67 G3 Europos
- Bryce 2016 82, 90, 93, 101, 107, 114, 117, 123, 128, 132, 158, 161, 167, 168,218
- Carchemish 1914-1952
- Gilibert 2011
- Honigmann 1923 I.177
- Karkemish - Turco-Italian joint project
- Marchetti 2012
- Marchetti 2014
- Nau 1902 12
- Peltenburg 2007
- Sconzo 2014
- ToposText Europos/Carchemish (Syria)
- TrecEnc Karkemish (Dizionario di Storia (2010))
- Wikipedia (English) Carchemish
- Wilkinson et al. 2016
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 G3 Europos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Jerablous/Cerablus (Carchemish) SYR/TKY
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Carchemish: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658465> [accessed: 04 February 2025]
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