Qalat al-Bahrain
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).
Last modified
Jul 06, 2019 09:42 PM
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History
An ancient settlement with evidence from occupation stretching from 2300 BC to the sixteenth century AD that was at one time the capital of the Dilmun civilization. Qal’at al-Bahrain was listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932478
26.233137, 50.520036
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 32218 (330 BC - AD 640)
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- قلعة البحرين (Qal'at al-Bahrain: Arabic, modern)
- Qalat al-Bahrain connection Tylos (island) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 95 C3 Qalat al-Bahrain
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Qalat al-Bahrain, BAH
D.T. Potts, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Qalat al-Bahrain: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/932478> [accessed: 01 February 2023]
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