Hecatompylos?/Komish/[(Shahr-i) Qumis]
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, E.J. Keall Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, E.J. Keall Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 24, 2021 05:18 PM
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History
Hecatompylos? was an ancient city in Iran that served as the capital of the Parthian Arsacid dynasty by 200 BC. Alexander passed through in 330 BC and the city eventually became part of the Seleucid empire and later a capital of the Parthian empire.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942276
35.9610935, 54.0382895
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 22221 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARMC location 20303 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Less than certain: Hecatompylos (550 BC - AD 640)
- Komish (30 BC - AD 640)
- Qumis (unspecified date range)
- Shahr-i Qumis (unspecified date range)
- Hecatompylos?/Komish/[(Shahr-i) Qumis] capital of Komisene/Komish (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 96 C4 Hecatompylos?/Komish/[(Shahr-i) Qumis]
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Shahr-i Qumis
M. Roaf, E.J. Keall, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Hecatompylos?/Komish/[(Shahr-i) Qumis]: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942276> [accessed: 16 April 2024]
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