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Vosgepag

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Birgit Christiansen

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, Rune Rattenborg

Last modified Jan 31, 2023 01:19 PM — History

tags: ANE, Urartian, Urartu

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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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/139078664

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.51595775, 43.56333065

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Beşçatak (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Beşçatak (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Beşçatak (Turkish, unspecified date range)
- Eskipak (Kurdish, modern)
- Paka Kevin (Kurdish, modern)
- Vosgepag (Armenian, modern)

Vosgepag makes connections with:

Less than certain: Vosgepag part of (administrative) Urartu (900 BC - 701 BC)

Vosgepag receives connections from:

None

Place type:
findspot, place of finding, settlement, settlement-modern

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
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: 19 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/139078664 |title=Places: 139078664 (Vosgepag) |author=Christiansen, B. |accessdate=April 19, 2024 11:12 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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