Dāna

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Claudia Horst

Contributors: Jamie Novotny

Last modified Jan 31, 2018 10:42 AM — History

tags: ANE

A town mentioned in Neo-Assyrian sources; the modern site is ad-Dāna.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/858843277

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.2135713, 36.7704347

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Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Ad Dana (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Dāna (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
- ad-Dāna (Arabic, 1000 BC - 540 BC)

Dāna makes connections with:

None

Dāna receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

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Suggested citation:
Claudia Horst, and Jamie Novotny, 'Dāna: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/858843277> [accessed: 20 April 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/858843277 |title=Places: 858843277 (Dāna) |author=Horst, C. |accessdate=April 20, 2025 9:23 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}