‘Diabas’/Turnat (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, 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, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 07, 2020 07:10 AM
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History
The Diyala River is a major tributary of the Tigris.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893984
33.756783799, 44.8282095855
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Diyala-Tigris confluence (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of modern course of Diyala River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Diabas (unspecified date range)
- نهر ديالى (Nahr Diyālā: Modern Standard Arabic)
- Less than certain: Tornadotus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Turnat (unspecified date range)
- ‘Diabas’/Turnat (river) flows into Tigris/Diglitus (river) (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 F4 ‘Diabas’/Turnat fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Diyala IRN/IRQ
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, '‘Diabas’/Turnat (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/893984> [accessed: 06 April 2025]
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