Daskyleion
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss
Creators: C. Foss
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Rune Rattenborg, Phoebe Acheson
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Last modified
Mar 10, 2023 06:37 PM
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History
Daskyleion (modern Hisartepe at Ergili in Turkey) was the capital of the Persian satrapy of Phrygia from the sixth century BC until the conquests of Alexander the Great.
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511225
40.1324945443, 28.0507383634
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Daskyleion (750 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- CIGS location of Hisartepe (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Daskyleion (750 BC - AD 300)
- Hisartepe (Turkish, modern)
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- Ergili (Turkish, modern)
- Daskyleion abuts Daskylitis Limne (unspecified date range)
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settlement, archaeological site
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 52 C4 Daskyleion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ergili, not to be confused with Daskyleion in Bithynia.
C. Foss, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Rune Rattenborg, and Phoebe Acheson, 'Daskyleion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511225> [accessed: 24 March 2025]
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