Nisibis/Antiochia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 30, 2021 03:50 PM
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History
Nisibis/Antiochia was an ancient city of Mesopotamia that began as part of an Aramaean kingdom that the Assyrian king Adad-Nirari II captured in 896 BC. Following its capture by Alexander the Great, the city became Antiochia Mygdonia under the Seleucids.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874623
37.0675116667, 41.2154466667
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 20531 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 21476 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 D3 Nisibis/Antiochia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nusaybin SYR/TKY
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Nisibis/Antiochia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874623> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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