Korsote
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
Jan 29, 2018 09:33 AM
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History
Xenophon describes Korsote as a large city located in the desert to the south of the confluence of the Chaboras (Habur) and the Euphrates rivers. It is now unlocated.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897786
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Korsote located on Maskas (river) (550 BC - 330 BC)
- Less than certain: Yabi located near Korsote (1000 BC - 720 BC)
unlocated, settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 91 Korsote
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: on Maskas fl.
M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jamie Novotny, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Korsote: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/897786> [accessed: 13 March 2025]
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