You are here: Home → Ancient Places → Absheron (peninsula)

Absheron (peninsula)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Gabriel Mckee

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Oct 31, 2018 10:30 PM — History

A peninsula in the South Caucasus, extending approximately 60 km into the Caspian Sea.

Show place in Google Earth.

Show area in GeoNames, Google Maps, or OpenStreetMap.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281602871

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.436498595, 50.1830520279

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Absheron Peninsula (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

None

Absheron (peninsula) makes connections with:

Absheron (peninsula) located on Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
Absheron (peninsula) part of (physical/topographic) Caucasus (mountain range) (unspecified date range)

Absheron (peninsula) receives connections from:

None

Place type:
peninsula

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
Gabriel Mckee, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Absheron (peninsula): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281602871> [accessed: 26 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281602871 |title=Places: 281602871 (Absheron (peninsula)) |author=Mckee, G. |accessdate=April 26, 2024 1:19 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

Personal tools

Absheron (peninsula)