Cyropolis/Kyra
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 26, 2022 07:29 AM
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History
Cyropolis/Kyra was an ancient settlement, likely coincident with modern Kurkat 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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59781
40.1353550327, 69.2619765081
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of modern Kurkat, Tajikistan (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Cyreschata (30 BC - AD 640)
- Cyropolis (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Kyra (unspecified date range)
- None
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settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B1 Cyropolis/Kyra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kurkat? TAJ
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, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59781> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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