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Banbhore

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Nov 03, 2023 01:50 PM — History

tags: UWHS Submitted

Banbhore is located 65 km east of Karachi. Its sequence of occupation stretches from the first century BC to the thirteenth century AD.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91371094

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
24.7516906818, 67.5214984622

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Banbhore Fort (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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Banbhore makes connections with:

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Banbhore receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement, port

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The submission for consideration for UNESCO World Heritage Site status notes: "... the site’s surface remains represent the best preserved early Islamic urban form in South Asia and the region’s best preserved mediaeval port."

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Banbhore: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91371094> [accessed: 06 May 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/91371094 |title=Places: 91371094 (Banbhore) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=May 6, 2024 3:01 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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