Ābādān (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Tom Elliott Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 15, 2026 05:27 PM
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History
An island in modern Iran at the head of the Persian Gulf, bounded today on the southwest by the Shatt al-Arab and on the northeast by the Bahmanshir. Its name first appears certainly in 9th century CE sources, but it may relate to an apparent cognate preserved in Ptolemy and its general topography (or that of an earlier island in the vicinity) may have been known to some Greek and Roman geographers.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/996415846
30.1707656244, 48.4526688269
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location: modern Abadan Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Abadan Island (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- جزيرة عبادان (Jazirat Eibadan: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- جزیره آبادان (Jazireh Abadan: Modern Persian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- None
- Uncertain: Apphadana same as Ābādān (island) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Ābādān (settlement) located on Ābādān (island) (AD 2000 - AD 2099)
island
Pleiades
Tom Elliott, 'Ābādān (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/996415846> [accessed: 13 June 2026]
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