Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, W. Röllig, Eric Kansa, World Historical Gazetteer, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, Enes Yılandiloğlu
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Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey (modern Herat, Afghanistan).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961874
34.3455665, 62.189142
- Representative Locations:
- CIGS Location (1000 BC - 1 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Alexandreia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Alexandreia Areia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 226)
- Alexandria Ariorum (330 BC - AD 640)
- Antiocheia (Ancient Greek, 330 BC - 140 BC)
- Areia (Ancient Greek, 540 BC - 330 BC)
- Artacavan (330 BC - AD 640)
- Artakauana (Ancient Greek, 540 BC - AD 226)
- Artakoana (540 BC - 140 BC)
- Harey (330 BC - AD 640)
- Harāi (Middle Persian, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Harāiya (Middle Persian, unspecified date range)
- Harāt (Modern Standard Arabic, 330 BC - AD 2000)
- هرات (Harāt: Modern Persian)
- Harēw (Syriac, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Herāt (Modern Persian, 1200 BC - AD 2000)
- هرات (Herāt: Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey part of (administrative) Sasanian Empire (AD 224 - AD 651)
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settlement, archaeological site
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 98 C4 Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Herat AFG
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites states: "Founded in 330, at Artacoana, capital of the province of that name at, or near, Herat on the Hari river."
St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Carolin Johansson, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, W. Röllig, Eric Kansa, World Historical Gazetteer, R. Talbert, B. Siewert-Mayer, Rune Rattenborg, Francis Deblauwe, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Alexandria Ariorum/Artacavan/Harey: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961874> [accessed: 16 July 2026]
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