Ad Tygrem/Amida
a Pleiades
place
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Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, B. Siewert-Mayer, Gabriel Bodard, Chris de Lisle, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Enes Yılandiloğlu, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, World Historical Gazetteer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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History
Modern Diyarbakir in Turkey.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874298
37.9122455, 40.2334445
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 21423 (AD 300 - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- adtygrem (Ad Tygrem: Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Amedi (Akkadian, 720 BC - 540 BC)
- امد (Amid: Modern Standard Arabic, AD 600 - AD 1918)
- Amida (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Amida (Ancient Greek, 140 BC - AD 850)
- Amida (English, AD 1700 - AD 1799)
- Amēdi (Dialect of Akkadian Assyrian, 720 BC - 330 BC)
- Diarbeckr (English, AD 1700 - AD 1799)
- Diyar Bakr (AD 1683 - AD 1918)
- Diyarbakir (AD 1918 - AD 2000)
- Diyarbakır (Ottoman Turkish, 720 BC - AD 2000)
- Diyarbakır (Turkish, 720 BC - AD 2000)
- Diyarbekir (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Diyār Bakr (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 600 - AD 2000)
- Diyār Bakr (Ottoman Turkish, AD 600 - AD 2000)
- ديار بكر (Diyār-ı Bekr: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
- Edessa (Ancient Greek, AD 1500 - AD 1918)
- Qara Amid (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Qara Amid (AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Qara Āmid (Modern Standard Arabic, AD 600 - AD 1500)
- V Parthica (Const.) garrison (Georgian, 140 BC - AD 640)
- آمد (Āmid: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Ḳara Amid (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1453 - AD 1683)
- Less than certain: Ad Tygrem/Amida part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (unspecified date range)
- Ad Tygrem/Amida part of (regional) al-Jazirah (region) (AD 632 - Present)
- Zuqnin, Mon. located near Ad Tygrem/Amida (AD 300 - AD 850)
settlement
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 C3 Ad Tygrem/Amida
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Diyarbakır
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, H. Kopp, B. Siewert-Mayer, Gabriel Bodard, Chris de Lisle, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Enes Yılandiloğlu, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, DARMC, World Historical Gazetteer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Ad Tygrem/Amida: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874298> [accessed: 11 May 2026]
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