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Chulcul (river)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: R.B. Hitchner
Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Apr 22, 2025 02:12 PM
The ancient Chulcul river has been tentatively identified by scholars with the modern Oued Bou Zenna/Oued Zouara in Tunisia. This river and its environs were largely inundated by the construction of the Sidi El Barrak dam in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/314930

37.0183040856, 8.97469588353
    • Less than certain: Chulcul (30 BC - AD 640)
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river, drainage, reservoir, hafir

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 C2 Chulcul? fl.

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Oued-bou-Zenna


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R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Chulcul (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/314930> [accessed: 11 July 2025] 

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