[Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)?
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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Sep 20, 2024 12:31 PM
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History
[Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)?, a settlement in Parthia called “the most attractive place of Parthia” by Pliny the Elder.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942286
35.286884, 52.497326
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 22269 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10000 meters.
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- Less than certain: Ἀπάμεια (Apameia: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Apameia Rhagiane (330 BC - AD 300)
- Choara (330 BC - AD 640)
- Khuvar (AD 300 - AD 640)
- [Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)? connection Cho(a)rene (unspecified date range)
- [Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)? part of (regional) Media/Mad(aya) (region) (unspecified date range)
- [Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)? part of (administrative) Seleucid Empire (330 BC - 30 BC)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 96 A4 [Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: near Aradan
M. Roaf, E.J. Keall, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Chris de Lisle, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, '[Khuvar]/Choara/Apameia (Rhagiane)?: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/942286> [accessed: 03 December 2024]
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