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Cyropolis/Kyra

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors: DARMC, 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 May 16, 2013 02:29 PM — History
Cyropolis/Kyra was an ancient settlement in what is now northern Tajikistan. Tradition holds that Cyrus the Great established the site in 544 BC to mark the boundary of the Persian empire.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59781

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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B1 Cyropolis/Kyra

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kurkat? TAJ

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M.U. Erdosy, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cyropolis/Kyra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59781> [accessed: 22 September 2018] 

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