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Place [Samarra]/‘Sumere’ by M. Roaf — last modified Dec 29, 2023 11:40 AM
Site of a powerful Islamic capital that controlled the provinces of the Abbasid Empire extending from Tunisia to Central Asia for a century. Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2007.
Place [Terqa]/Asicha? by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 12, 2024 10:24 AM
[Terqa]/Asicha? was an ancient city located at the site of Tell Ashara on the banks of the Euphrates river.
Place Anatho by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:36 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 91 C3 Anatho
Place Cantigi by P.O. Spann — last modified Feb 27, 2023 06:02 AM
An ancient settlement attested by an ethnic name in a single, fragmentary funerary inscription. The 19th century findspot of the inscription, presumably in the immediate vicinity of the ancient town, was at a locality called "Plaza de Armas" located to the northeast of (and across the Guadalquivir from) the modern Spanish town of Espelúy (Jaén, Andalucia).
Place Dur-Sharrukin by M. Roaf — last modified Dec 23, 2023 01:51 PM
Dūr-Šarrukīn (“Fort Sargon”), modern Khorsabad, became the capital of the Assyrian Empire during the reign of the eighth-century-BC ruler Sargon II (r. 721–705 BC). According to the Assyrian Eponym Chronicle, the foundations of the city were laid in 717 BC and the city itself was completed in early 706 BC, one year before Sargon was killed on the battlefield. Sargon’s newly-constructed, rectangular-shaped capital, which he modelled on the general plan on Babylon, was abandoned upon his death in 705 BC; his son and successor Sennacherib (r. 704–681 BC) made Nineveh Assyria’s principal administrative center.
Place Falerii Veteres by W.V. Harris — last modified Jan 15, 2024 02:57 PM
Falerii Veteres was the principal city of the Faliscans. It is located on a tuff outcropping at the point where several tributaries of the Treia join to flow into the Tiber. After rebelling against Rome in 241 B.C., Falerii suffered serious reversals of fortune.
Place Mazaka/Eusebeia/Caesarea by T.B. Mitford — last modified May 31, 2023 03:43 PM
Mazaka/Eusebeia/Caesarea was the chief town of Cappadocia, modern Kayseri.
Place Opis by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 16, 2024 03:53 PM
Opis was an ancient city of Babylonia located on the Tigris river close to the site of modern Baghdad.
Place Qalatgah by M. Roaf — last modified Jun 19, 2023 10:12 AM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 H3 Qalatgah
Place Samaria/Sebaste by E.M. Meyers — last modified Jan 04, 2024 11:41 AM
Samaria/Sebaste was an ancient city of Iudaea. In 30 B.C. it passed under the control of Herod the Great and was renamed Sebaste in honor of the emperor Augustus.
Place Scythopolis/Nysa by E.M. Meyers — last modified Mar 09, 2024 06:06 PM
A settlement located at the juncture of the Jordan and Jezreel valleys, Scythopolis/Nysa had important Egyptian through Roman phases.
Place Sidon/Col. Aurelia Pia by E.M. Meyers — last modified Jan 04, 2024 11:56 AM
Sidon/Col. Aurelia Pia is an ancient maritime city and Phoenician metropolis
Place Sippar by M. Roaf — last modified Dec 26, 2023 12:27 AM
Sippar (or Zimbir) was an ancient city located on the east bank of the Euphrates river at the site of modern Tell Abu Habbah. In order to avoid confusing this site with its sister city of Sippar-Amnanum (Tell ed-Der), it is sometimes labeled as Sippar-Yahrurum.
Place Susa/Seleucia ad Eulaeum by A. Hausleiter — last modified Feb 06, 2024 01:58 PM
An ancient city of the Elamite, Persian, and Parthian empires of Iran. Located at modern Shush, Susa was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2015.
Place Sychem by E.M. Meyers — last modified Dec 23, 2023 12:47 PM
An ancient settlement in the Levant, attested Biblically and in ancient Egyptian documents and the Amarna letters. Scholars associate this settlement with the archaeological site of Tel Balata, which is located in the modern West Bank and has seen attention from archaeologists since the early 20th century.
Place Takrit/Birta by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:20 PM
Ancient Birta (or Birtha) was a fortress on the Tigris river that may have been established by Alexander the Great.
Place Tanis by A. Bernand — last modified Jan 04, 2024 11:38 AM
An important settlement in the eastern Nile delta (modern San el-Hagar), Tanis boasted a massive temple precinct and was the burial site for Egyptian kings of the 21st and 22nd dynasties.
Place Tas-Silġ by Jeffrey Becker — last modified Dec 27, 2023 01:03 PM
A hilltop on Malta that is the locus of multi-period settlement and religious activity from the Neolithic period to late antiquity.
Place Tell Hamidi/[Ta'idu]? by M. Roaf — last modified Jan 05, 2024 12:08 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 89 D4 Tell Hamidi/[Ta'idu]?
Place Tell Laham by A. Hausleiter — last modified Jan 11, 2024 05:32 PM
An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 93 B1 Tell Laham