Kabul
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Creators: M.U. Erdosy
Contributors:
Enes Yılandiloğlu, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, W. Röllig, World Historical Gazetteer, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Eric Kansa, Francis Deblauwe, Rune Rattenborg
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Last modified
Nov 02, 2025 09:01 PM
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History
Pre-modern settlement at and around the area of modern Kabul, Afghanistan has been known by various names in a variety of languages and periods. Excavations begun in the early twenty-first century have significantly extended scholarly understanding established in the early-to-mid 20th century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59885
34.5207619, 69.1713351
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Kabul (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20392 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Caman-Hazuri (Ca. 600-400 B.C. Persian, Old, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- چمن حضوری (Chaman-i Ḥaz̤ūrī: Modern Persian)
- Kaboura (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Kabul (AD 1900 - AD 1950)
- Kophen (330 BC - AD 640)
- كابل (Kābil: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
- Kābol (Modern Persian, 1200 BC - AD 2000)
- Kābul (Modern Standard Arabic, 540 BC - AD 2000)
- Kābul (Pashto, 540 BC - AD 2000)
- Kābūl (540 BC - 330 BC)
- Kāvul (Middle Persian, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Kōphēn (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 226)
- Ortaspana (330 BC - 140 BC)
- Ortospana (Ancient Greek, 540 BC - 140 BC)
- Čaman Hezārī (Modern Persian, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Kabul connection Kophen/Koa (river) (unspecified date range)
- Findspot of so-called Kabul Hoard located at Kabul (unspecified date range)
settlement, settlement-modern
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 6 B3 Kophen
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kabul? AFG
M.U. Erdosy, Enes Yılandiloğlu, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, W. Röllig, World Historical Gazetteer, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Eric Kansa, Francis Deblauwe, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kabul: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/59885> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
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