Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Chris de Lisle, jfu, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
Nicephorium (modern ar-Raqqa in Syria) was an ancient settlement on the river Euphrates in Syria. It may be identical with Callinicum, which was renamed Leontopolis in the mid-fifth century CE.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668318
35.9500183333, 39.0569913333
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 5127 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
- DARMC location 22365 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Callinicum (330 BC - AD 640)
- Kallinikos (Ancient Greek, 140 BC - AD 640)
- Leonopolis (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Leontopolis (Akkadian, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Nicephorion (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Nicephorium (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Νικηφόριον (Nikephorion: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Raqqa (Ottoman Turkish, AD 750 - Present)
- ar-Raqqa (Modern Standard Arabic)
- ar-Rāfiqa (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 750 - AD 940)
- Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis part of (regional) al-Jazirah (region) (AD 632 - Present)
- Ichnai/Achnai next place in route Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis (unspecified date range)
- Zenodotion located near Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis (unspecified date range)
settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 68 G2 Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Raqqa
J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Chris de Lisle, jfu, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668318> [accessed: 23 December 2024]
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