Kerkenes/Pteria?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Mitchell
Creators: S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Manning, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Oct 28, 2025 10:16 AM
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History
A large, fortified Phrygian settlement dating to the 7th/6th centuries BCE on modern Kerkenes Dağ in Turkey's Yozgat province. It is probably to be identified with a "Pteria" mentioned by Herodotus as the site of a battle between Cyrus and Croesus.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/619244
39.748976978, 35.0683124992
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (750 BC - 550 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Kerkenes (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Cappadocia Gate at Kerkenes located at Kerkenes/Pteria? (700 BC - 500 BC)
- Palatial complex at Pteria located at Kerkenes/Pteria? (800 BC - 500 BC)
settlement (fortified), settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 63 G1 Pteria
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kerkenes Dağ
S. Mitchell, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Manning, and Tom Elliott, 'Kerkenes/Pteria?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/619244> [accessed: 09 February 2026]
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