Vosgepag
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Birgit Christiansen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 31, 2023 01:19 PM
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History
Vosgepag was the Armenian name for a small village near Van in eastern Turkey (now officially called Beşçatak in Turkish). In its church, a reused building inscription of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) was found.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/139078664
38.51595775, 43.56333065
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Beşçatak (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Beşçatak (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Beşçatak (Turkish, unspecified date range)
- Eskipak (Kurdish, modern)
- Paka Kevin (Kurdish, modern)
- Vosgepag (Armenian, modern)
- Less than certain: Vosgepag part of (administrative) Urartu (900 BC - 701 BC)
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findspot, place of finding, settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Vosgepag: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/139078664> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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