Akdamar Island
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 05, 2023 03:26 PM
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The second largest of the four islands in Lake Van, in eastern Turkey.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/359852689
38.3407709433, 43.0364939793
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Akdamar Island (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Ahtamar (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Ahtamar (Turkish, unspecified date range)
- Akdamar Adası (Akdamar Adasi: Turkish, modern)
- Akdamar Island part of (physical/topographic) Thospitis Limne (unspecified date range)
- Aghtamar located on Akdamar Island (unspecified date range)
- Cathedral of the Holy Cross at Aghtamar located on Akdamar Island (unspecified date range)
island, archaeological site
- See Further:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Akdamar Island: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/359852689> [accessed: 22 November 2024]
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