Zahhak Castle

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

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A fortified citadel located in Hashtrud, East Azerbaijan Province, Iran. It takes its name from the mythological figure Zahhak. The site is in use from the second millennium BC until the Timurid era.

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Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.

Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/655525228

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.3851455, 47.167222

Locations:

OSM location of Zahhak Castle (2000 BC - 1000 BC)

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Place type:
fort, tower

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Wikipedia (English) Zahhak Castle

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Zahhak Castle: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/655525228> [accessed: 14 July 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/655525228 |title=Places: 655525228 (Zahhak Castle) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=July 14, 2020 6:19 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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