Kebili (formerly Babil)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 09, 2023 12:02 PM
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History
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The small village of Babil (now Kebili) is located about 25 km southwest of Cizre, near the Tigris river, directly on the Turkish-Syrian border. The name of the ancient site whose ruins lay beneath the modern village is not known.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/708232008
37.18762585, 42.02754125
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Kebeli (AD 1300 - Present) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS location of Kebeli (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Babil (Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
- Kebeli Köyü, Kebeli Koyu (Kebeli Köyü: Turkish, modern)
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archaeological site, settlement-modern
Fragments of a stele of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II were discovered here.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Kebili (formerly Babil): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/708232008> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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