Moab

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Ryan Horne

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Jamie Novotny

Last modified Aug 03, 2020 05:55 AM — History

A mountainous strip of land in Jordan that was also the location of the kingdom of Moab, with its capital at Dibon.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857932176

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.499159, 35.780512

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Mā'ab (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- Mā'aba (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
Ethnic Names:
- Mā'abāja (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)

Moab makes connections with:

None

Moab receives connections from:

Dibon part of (regional) Moab (unspecified date range)

Place type:
region

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Jamie Novotny, 'Moab: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857932176> [accessed: 30 September 2023]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/857932176 |title=Places: 857932176 (Moab) |author=Horne, R. |accessdate=September 30, 2023 6:33 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Moab