Dargamanes (river)
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).
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Feb 27, 2025 08:23 PM
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History
Ancient Greek and Roman accounts of this and other Bactrian rivers are confused. The Barrington Atlas tentatively identifies this ancient river with the modern Ab-e-Safed (Daryā-ye Safēd) in Afghanistan's Jowzjan province.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59788
36.73466, 65.63422
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: Geonames Location: Daryā-ye Safēd (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Δαργαμάνης (Dargamanes: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Dargomanes (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B2 Dargamanes? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Ab-e-Safed AFG
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dargamanes (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59788> [accessed: 21 March 2025]
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