Laqê
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jamie Novotny Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Dec 07, 2025 12:04 PM
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History
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A land situated on the middle Euphrates, to north and west of the kingdom of Suhu and to the south of the land Bit-Halupê. Eleven of its cities are mentioned in Assyrian inscriptions of the first millennium B.C.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973646284
34.71904, 40.674133
- Representative Locations:
- Representative centerpoint of Laqê (1000 BC - 540 BC) accuracy: +/- 4270 meters.
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- Lāqê (Akkadian, 1000 BC - 540 BC)
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In the 9th century B.C., Lāqê was annexed into Assyria and became part of the province of Raṣappa.
Jamie Novotny, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Laqê: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/973646284> [accessed: 08 December 2025]
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