Hemodos/Imaus/Caucasus (mountains)
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
May 03, 2022 03:48 PM
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History
Although ancient, western commentators varied in their precision and ideas about location, they seem all to have meant by these names a single range or mountainous region corresponding to the modern notion of the Himalaya or at least the eastern portion of what we today consider the Hindu Kush, Pamir, and Himalaya ranges.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59834
30.2477642076, 81.172610489
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Label Location (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 9310 meters.
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- Caucasus M. (Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Emoda M. (330 BC - AD 300)
- Ἠμωδὸν ὄρος (Emodon oros: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Emodus M. (30 BC - AD 640)
- Ἠμωδὰ (Hemoda: Ancient Greek, modern)
- Hemoda M. (330 BC - AD 300)
- Hemodos (330 BC - AD 640)
- Imaikos M. (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Imaus (unspecified date range)
- Lamnus M. (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Tauros M. (unspecified date range)
- None
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mountain
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 D3 Hemodos/Imaus/Caucasus M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Himalayas Pāli: Hemoda Skt.: Hīmavat
M.U. Erdosy, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hemodos/Imaus/Caucasus (mountains): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59834> [accessed: 16 February 2025]
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