Historical place profile
Dahan-i Ghulaman/Zra(n)ka?
A mud brick urban site in Sīstān, Iran, with a main period of occupation around the fifth century BCE. It was probably the Achaemenid provincial capital of Zarin or Zranka in Drangiana until it was buried by sand or dried out by movements of the Helmand endorheic basin.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:29540
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:29540
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 30.796308, 61.636092
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A mud brick urban site in Sīstān, Iran, with a main period of occupation around the fifth century BCE. It was probably the Achaemenid provincial capital of Zarin or Zranka in Drangiana until it was buried by sand or dried out by movements of the Helmand endorheic basin.
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: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 3 H3 Dahan-i Ghulaman/Zra(n)ka?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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