Tzon/Tzur
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund
Creators: David Braund
Contributors:
Enes Yılandiloğlu, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Diane Braund, World Historical Gazetteer
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 31, 2026 03:42 PM
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History
Tzon/Tzur (modern Derbent, Russia) was also known in antiquity as Darband, an ancient city in Dāḡestān on the western shore of the Caspian Sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863911
42.05778135, 48.2967024
- Representative Locations:
- location of Tzon/Tzur (750 BC - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- DARMC location 22136 (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- باب الابواب (Bābü’l-ebvāb: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Demürḳapu (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Derbend (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Tzon (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Tzur (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Tzon/Tzur connection Caspium/Hyrcanium Mare (unspecified date range)
- Tzon/Tzur connection Kaspiai Pylai/Albaniai Pylai (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 88 G2 Tzon/Tzur
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Derbent/Darband RUS
David Braund, Enes Yılandiloğlu, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, Sean Gillies, Diane Braund, and World Historical Gazetteer, 'Tzon/Tzur: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/863911> [accessed: 19 May 2026]
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