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Carrhae

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier

Contributors: M. Ballance, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Jamie Novotny, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Johan Åhlfeldt

Last modified Jun 08, 2018 07:27 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Carrhae is a major settlement of Upper Mesopotamia from the Bronze Age onward. The earliest mentions of the site are found in the Ebla tablets (ca. 2300 B.C.).

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658427

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.8655215, 39.0301785

Locations:

DARMC location 30116 (750 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Carrhae (750 BC - AD 640)
Harran (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)

Carrhae makes connections with:

None

Carrhae receives connections from:

Ehulhul at Carrhae (2000 BC - 540 BC)

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

TP 10B3 (Talbert 2619)

See Further:

See Also:

Related:

TM GEO ID 3140

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 H3 Carrhae

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Altınbaşak, formerly Harran

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Suggested citation:
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Jamie Novotny, R. Talbert, R. Warner, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Carrhae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658427> [accessed: 25 April 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658427 |title=Places: 658427 (Carrhae) |author=Sinclair, T., P. Gatier |accessdate=April 25, 2019 11:50 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Carrhae