Eğrikale
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Sean Manning, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Oct 28, 2025 10:20 AM
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History
Ruins of an old town or castle on the tall "Felsberg Egri Kalch" near the mouth of the Halys river that were formerly posited as an identification for Herodotus' "Pteria" (thus RE whence BAtlas 87, which labeled Eğrikale with "Pteria" using a hollow settlement symbol). Pteria is now thought much more probably to be associated with the large 7th/6th century site at Kerkenes Dağı to the southwest, q.v.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857294
41.321531, 35.108768
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20213 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Pteria (550 BC - AD 640)
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- Egri Kalch (German, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Eğrikale (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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- Pteria (copy) (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 A3 Pteria
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Eğrikale?
T. Sinclair, David Braund, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Sean Manning, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, and Tom Elliott, 'Eğrikale: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857294> [accessed: 17 December 2025]
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