Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron
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, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
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Last modified
Nov 04, 2024 04:19 PM
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History
A city in Armenia, founded by Tigranes II as capital of his kingdom in the first half of the 1st century BC.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874774
37.977039393, 41.3820499546
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Arzen (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Chlomaron (AD 300 - AD 640)
- Cholimma (30 BC - AD 300)
- Tigranocerta (330 BC - AD 640)
- Τιγρανόκερτα (Tigranókerta: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 30 BC)
- Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron part of (regional) Armenia (region) (unspecified date range)
- Theater of Tigranocerta located at Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron (unspecified date range)
settlement, archaeological site
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- BAtlas 89 D3 Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron
- Cohen 2013 50-51
- ItMiller 746, 744, 748 Tigranocarten
- Markwart 1930 341-42
- OCD Online Tigranocerta (Eric William Gray, Susan Mary Sherwin-White, and Josef Wiesehöfer)
- Sinclair 1995
- Sinclair 1996 VIII.3
- ToposText Tigranocerta (Armenia)
- Wikipedia (English) Silvan, Diyarbakır
- Wikipedia (English) Tigranakert (Silvan)
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 D3 Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: medieval city site of Arzan
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tigranocerta/Cholimma/Chlomaron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874774> [accessed: 17 November 2024]
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