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Gumush tepe/[Abaskun]?/Sokanda?

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Roaf, E.J. Keall
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Nov 21, 2025 01:34 PM — History
Gumush tepe/[Abaskun]?/Sokanda? was a a harbour town located at the south-eastern corner of the Caspian Sea.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942270

37.07093, 54.077705
    • Less than certain: Abaskun (unspecified date range)
    • Abeskūn (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
    • Less than certain: Sokanda (unspecified date range)
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settlement, port

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 96 C2 Gumush tepe/[Abaskun]?/Sokanda?

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gumush tepe, on an island at times engulfed by sea (Le Strange 1905)


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M. Roaf, E.J. Keall, DARMC, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Gumush tepe/[Abaskun]?/Sokanda?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942270> [accessed: 17 May 2026] 

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