Zeugma
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Creators: T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors:
M. Ballance, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert
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Apr 09, 2025 02:05 PM
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History
An ancient settlement whose site is located in the Gaziantep province of modern Turkey, at the modern village of Belkis (a.k.a. Kavunlu). The majority of the ancient remains were covered by water in the year 2000, due to the construction of the Birecik Dam.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658636
37.0577331987, 37.8702201109
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 3729 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Zeugma (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Seleukeia pros to Euphrate (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Ζεῦγμα (Zeugma: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Less than certain: Zuqarri (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Zeugma part of (administrative) Commagene (330 BC - AD 300)
- Zeugma part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)
- Zeugma connection Untitled (unspecified date range)
- Theater of Zeugma located at Zeugma (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 67 F2 Zeugma
- Excavations at Zeugma, Conducted by Oxford University Edited by William Aylward The Packard Humanities Institute Los Altos, California 2013
- ItAnt (Cuntz) 190,2
- ItMiller 758, 768, 776
- Livius.org Zeugma
- PECS (Perseus) ZEUGMA later SELEUCIA ON THE EUPHRATES (Balkis) Syria
- Wagner 1976 23-70
- Wikipedia (English) Zeugma, Commagene
- Wikipedia (German) Zeugma (Stadt)
- Zeugma Archaeological Project website
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 67 F2 Zeugma
Excavations at the site of Zeugma are chronicled on the official website of the Zeugma Archaeological Project.
This site is the same as the one addressed by the following web sites:
- David Kennedy, "Zeugma on the Euphrates" Classics and Ancient HIstory: The University of Western Australia.
T. Sinclair, P.-L. Gatier, M. Ballance, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, and R. Talbert, 'Zeugma: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/658636> [accessed: 06 December 2025]
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