Historical place profile
Akarçay Tepe Höyük
Akarçay Tepe Höyük, a settlement of the eighth and seventh millennia BCE located to the east of the Euphrates River in the immediate vicinity of the Syrian border near the Turkish village of Akarçay in the Birecik district of the province of Şanlıurfa. The site lies on the south bank of the Su Deresi stream, which flows west into the Euphrates River.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:968351378
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:968351378
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 36.918101, 38.021392
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Akarçay Tepe Höyük, a settlement of the eighth and seventh millennia BCE located to the east of the Euphrates River in the immediate vicinity of the Syrian border near the Turkish village of Akarçay in the Birecik district of the province of Şanlıurfa. The site lies on the south bank of the Su Deresi stream, which flows west into the Euphrates River.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Pleiades
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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