Bazira
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M.U. Erdosy Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 15, 2024 04:47 PM
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History
The site of an Indo-Greek settlement dating to the reign of King Menander I in the second century BC. This Hellenistic settlement covered some 30 ha at its peak. Earlier settlement phases have been identified, including a village dating ca. 1100-1000 B.C. in addition to Chalcolithic pit structures (ca. 1700 B.C.)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59740
34.6813245, 72.2128014
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20037 (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- OSM location of Ancient Bazira (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Bazira (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Beira (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Bī̄r-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai (Pashto, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 C3 Bazira
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Barikot
The Italian Archaeological Mission (now known as ISMEO) has been conducting excavations at the site since 1984.
M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Bazira: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59740> [accessed: 30 January 2025]
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