Taulara
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Creators: T. Sinclair, David Braund
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Apr 25, 2025 05:00 AM
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History
The attested Hellenistic settlement of "Taulara" may be identified with a now-invisible castle site at modern Horoztepe in Turkey's Tokat province (BAtlas, following Olshausen who argues for a location in the area between Tokat and Horoztepe, but does not commit to the latter).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857345
40.1702823, 37.2537505
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - 30 BC) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Bayramtepe (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Horoztepe (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Taulara same as Horoztepe Hellenistic Fortification (unspecified date range)
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None
settlement (fortified), fort, tower (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 87 B4 Taulara
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Bayramtepe, formerly Horoztepe
T. Sinclair, David Braund, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, and Tom Elliott, 'Taulara: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857345> [accessed: 18 May 2025]
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