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Amaseia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund

Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Diane Braund, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Nov 26, 2024 05:07 PM — History

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

Amaseia (modern Amasya) was a naturally fortified settlement in the Pontic mountains near the Black Sea. It served as the capital of the kingdom of Pontus from ca. 300 BC to 183 BC.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857018

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
40.66680835, 35.82794385

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 11096 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ἀμάσεια (Amaseia: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Amaseia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 1450)
- Amasya (Ottoman Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Amasya (Turkish, 1750 BC - AD 2000)
- Amāsiya (Modern Standard Arabic, 1200 BC - AD 2000)
- Amāsīya (AD 650 - AD 1335)

Amaseia makes connections with:

Amaseia located on Untitled (30 BC - AD 300)

Amaseia receives connections from:

Amasya castle located at Amaseia (unspecified date range)
Kral Kaya Mezarları located at Amaseia (unspecified date range)
Pontic rock-cut tombs located at Amaseia (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 A4 Amaseia

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Amasya. The geographer Strabo was born in Amaseia ca. 64 BC.

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Suggested citation:
T. Sinclair, David Braund, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Diane Braund, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Amaseia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857018> [accessed: 21 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857018 |title=Places: 857018 (Amaseia) |author=Sinclair, T., D. Braund |accessdate=December 21, 2024 6:53 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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