ed-Dur
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Mar 31, 2026 09:18 PM
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History
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UWHS Submitted
Remains of an ancient coastal settlement located between modern Al-Raafah and Al Ramlah in the United Arab Emirates. It is possibly to be identified with ancient Omana, mentioned in Roman sources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932474
25.522222, 55.626111
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Ed-Dur (10000 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 95 inset Omana?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: ed-Dur UAE
D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Ryan Horne, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'ed-Dur: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932474> [accessed: 18 May 2026]
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