Artaxata
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 11, 2023 08:47 PM
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History
An ancient city located on and around the hills known today as Khor Virap. This location is near the Armenian village of Lusarat, which is about 8 km south of modern Artashat.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874361
39.8818755331, 44.5751884575
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: Khor Virap (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Artaxata located on Araxes (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement, hill
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 G1 Artaxata
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: peninsula in R. Aras, near Aralik ARM
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Artaxata: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874361> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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