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Dilbarjin

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Aug 19, 2021 08:36 PM — History
Dilbarjin is an ancient city of northern Afghanistan. The site may have been founded under the Achaemenid Empire. Under the Kushan Empire, the site was a fortified local center of some importance.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961901

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settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 98 G1 Dilbarjin

P. Bernard, writing in Encyclopaedia Iranica (online) notes that the city of "Eukratideia" mentioned by both Strabo (11.11.2) and Ptolemy (6.11.8) may, in fact, correspond to the site of Dilbarjin in Bactria.

 

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dilbarjin, AFG


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St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Dilbarjin: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961901> [accessed: 25 September 2023] 

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