Meydancıkkale/Kiršu
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
An ancient fortified complex located on a natural outcropping of the Taurus mountains near the modern village of Tırnak in the Gülnar district of Turkey's Mersin Province. Identified as KRS (Kirsi/Kirshu) in neo-Babylonian chronicles, the site continued to be occupied and used into the Hellenistic period when it was destroyed and abandoned around 235 BCE. There is some evidence for reuse of the site in the Byzantine period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648710
36.2733421, 33.4410934
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Meydancık Kalesi (750 BC - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- KRŠ (Aramaic, 750 BC - 550 BC)
- Kiršu (Akkadian, 800 BC - 601 BC)
- Meydancık Kalesi (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Meydancıkkale (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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- Meydancık Kale (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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fort, settlement
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 C4 Meydancık Kale
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Meydancık Kale, stronghold, identified as KRS (Kirsi) in neo-Babylonian chronicle
S. Mitchell, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Meydancıkkale/Kiršu: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648710> [accessed: 03 February 2025]
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