Karun (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 08, 2026 05:39 PM
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History
The modern Karun river flows from the Zard-Kuh mountains to the Persian Gulf. In earlier Arabic and Persian sources, it was known as the Dudjayl and may be identifiable with the attested classical Greek Pasitigris.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912879
31.7236155106, 49.265716926
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Karun River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Pasitigris (unspecified date range)
- [Dudjayl] (unspecified date range)
- Karun (river) flows into Persicus Sinus/Erythr(ae)um Mare (unspecified date range)
- Dez/Hithite/Hudhud/Koprates? (river) connection Karun (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 E1 Karun/Pasitigris? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Karun, IRN/IRQ
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, Sean Gillies, and R. Talbert, 'Karun (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/912879> [accessed: 11 February 2026]
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