Mahmudabad
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 02, 2025 08:59 AM
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History
Mahmudabad is a modern settlement in the West Azerbaijan Region in the Northeast of Iran. Here a stone slab with an inscription of the Urartian king Rusa I. (8th century BCE) was found which lists offerings for undertaking a royal campaign.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/252095093
37.3659163, 45.130571
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern محمودآباد (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- محمودآباد (Mahmudabad: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Mahmudabad part of (analytical) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Mahmudabad: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/252095093> [accessed: 13 June 2026]
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