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Abydos

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.N. Borza

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, G. Reger, B. Siewert-Mayer, Chris de Lisle, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Mar 17, 2025 12:57 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:feature=settlement, dare:major=0

A city of Mysia located on the Hellespont.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501325

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.19421564, 26.4113127626

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Abydus (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Abide (Turkish, AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Abidūs (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 650 - AD 940)
- Ἄβυδος (Abydos: Ancient Greek, 700 BC - AD 1450)
- Avido (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Yapıldak (Turkish, unspecified date range)
- Ἄβυδος (Ábydos: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)

Abydos makes connections with:

Abydos part of (administrative) Achaemenid empire (750 BC - 330 BC)
Abydos part of (administrative) Attalid kingdom (330 BC - 30 BC)
Abydos located on Cape Nara (unspecified date range)
Abydos member of Delian League (550 BC - 330 BC)
Abydos founded by Miletus (750 BC - 550 BC)
Abydos part of (regional) Mysia (region) (unspecified date range)
Abydos part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)

Abydos receives connections from:

Heptastadion abuts Abydos (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement, archaeological site

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Evidence:

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Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 51 G4 Abydos

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Maltepe TKY

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Suggested citation:
E.N. Borza, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, G. Reger, B. Siewert-Mayer, Chris de Lisle, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Abydos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501325> [accessed: 25 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/501325 |title=Places: 501325 (Abydos) |author=Borza, E. |accessdate=March 25, 2025 11:47 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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