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Dilbarjin

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: St J. Simpson, F. Hiebert, P.L. Kohl
Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, R. Talbert
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Dec 12, 2025 04:01 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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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, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, and R. Talbert, 'Dilbarjin: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/961901> [accessed: 09 February 2026] 

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