Wari-Bateshwar
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Creators: Jeffrey Becker
Contributors:
Ryan Horne
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 25, 2016 12:07 PM
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History
An ancient settlement site located in what is now Bangladesh.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933888363
23.9156451, 90.6981963
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Narsingdi (modern)
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settlement, settlement-modern
- See Further:
Pleiades
Some scholars believe these ruins correspond to Ptolemy's description of Sounagoura (Sonargaon), the ancient capital of central Bengal is shown near the right bank of the Brahmaputra river. Artifact material suggests the possibility that the site was an emporion.
Jeffrey Becker, and Ryan Horne, 'Wari-Bateshwar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/933888363> [accessed: 07 July 2022]
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