Başkale
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Creators: Birgit Christiansen
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 05, 2020 03:02 PM
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History
Başkale (Turkish "Main Castle") is a town and district located in Van Province in south-eastern Turkey. According to an inscription in the Urartean language of the Urartean king Minua (9th/8th century BCE) on a stone block (A 5-52) the fortress located here was built by Minua and was given the name "City of the God Haldi".
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705365883
38.0444545, 44.0180863
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Başkale (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Başkale part of (regional) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
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settlement, settlement-modern
Pleiades
Birgit Christiansen , and Jeffrey Becker, 'Başkale: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/705365883> [accessed: 17 April 2025]
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