Arsamosata
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
A city in Armenia, probably founded by Arsames in the early second century BCE, perhaps at the site of modern Haraba (now under the Keban Dam Lake)
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874354
38.6608665, 39.5109175
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 34863 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 22943 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Ἀρμόσατα (Armósata: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Arsamosata (Latin, unspecified date range)
- Arsamosata (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Ἀρσαμόσατα (Arsamósata: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Arsamosata part of (regional) Armenia (region) (unspecified date range)
- Arsamosata part of (regional) Armenia Maior (30 BC - AD 300)
- Arsamosata part of (regional) Sophene (330 BC - 30 BC)
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 B2 Arsamosata
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Haraba
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Arsamosata: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874354> [accessed: 21 January 2025]
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