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Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, Tom Elliott

Last modified Aug 02, 2016 08:58 PM — History

tags: UWHS

Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun was the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire. The origins of the settlement belong to the sixth century BC (ca. 515). The archaeological site was named as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922695

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
29.93553562, 52.89007866

Locations:

DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640)
DARMC location 3427 (550 BC - AD 640)
DARMC location 22194 (550 BC - AD 640)
OSM location of Tomb of Artaxerxes III (540 BC - 330 BC)
OSM location of Apadana Palace (540 BC - 330 BC)

Names:

Parsa (550 BC - 30 BC)
Persai (550 BC - 30 BC)
Persepolis (550 BC - AD 640)
Sat Setun (30 BC - AD 640)

Makes a connection with:

None

Has a connection with:

None

Place type:
tomb, settlement, architectural complex

References:

Evidence:

TP 11C2 Persepoliscon Mercivm persarvm (Talbert 2779)

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 94 C4 Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun

Details:

None

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, R. Wenke, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, P. Flensted Jensen, and Tom Elliott, 'Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922695> [accessed: 20 July 2017]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/922695 |title=Places: 922695 (Persepolis/Parsa/Persai/Sat Setun) |author=Hausleiter, A., M. Roaf, R. Wenke |accessdate=July 20, 2017 2:31 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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