Amphipolis/Tourmeda/Nikatoris?
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Warner, Sean Gillies
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Last modified
Jan 30, 2021 04:05 PM
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History
An ancient settlement in Syria on the Euphrates river. Its precise location is not known, although various suggestions have been made by modern scholars.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658377
36.3535423983, 38.1758324357
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- Amphipolis (330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Nikatoris (330 BC - AD 640)
- Tourmeda (330 BC - AD 300)
- Uncertain: Amphipolis/Tourmeda/Nikatoris? same as Jebel Khalid (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 G4 Amphipolis/Tourmeda/Nikatoris?
Sinclair and Gatier in BAtlas adopted without caveat Gawlikowski's tentative 1996 suggestion identifying these placenames with "Jebel Khaled, earlier known as Kara Membidj"; however, the excavators of Jebel Khalid (q.v.) seem never to have adopted this suggestion.
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Gabriel Mckee, R. Warner, and Sean Gillies, 'Amphipolis/Tourmeda/Nikatoris?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658377> [accessed: 13 April 2025]
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