Kur/Araxes? (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke
Contributors:
R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, Wikidata contributors, Tom Elliott
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The modern Kor/Kur river in Iran is possibly to be identified as the upper course of the ancient Araxes river in Koile Syria.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922672
29.8548717575, 52.8705970966
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Kor River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Araxes (unspecified date range)
- Kor (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- رودخانه کر (Rūdkhāneh-ye Kor: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- None
- Pulvar/Araxes? (river) flows into Kur/Araxes? (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 94 C4 Kur/Araxes? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kur
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, Wikidata contributors, and Tom Elliott, 'Kur/Araxes? (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922672> [accessed: 15 January 2026]
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