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Old Kandahar citadel

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jun 10, 2023 11:36 AM History
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Tradition holds that the Iron Age and Achaemenid citadel of Old Kandahar was re-established during the time of Alexander the Great. It functioned as a local seat of power for at least two millennia.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630721027

31.6026085582, 65.6588689353
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settlement, archaeological site, citadel

Pleiades

Centre point location extracted from polygon drawn around entire site as identified on Google Earth base imagery in QGIS 3.x.


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Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Old Kandahar citadel: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630721027> [accessed: 28 March 2024]

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