Old Kandahar citadel
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg
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
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History
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.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/630721027
31.6026085582, 65.6588689353
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Old Kandahar citadel (1000 BC - AD 1000) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of Old Kandahar (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Old Kandahar citadel located at Alexandria/Alexandropolis/Cufis (unspecified date range)
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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.
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: 26 December 2024]
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