Historical place profile
Dawali
Dawali is a site in the middle of the Euphrates region and was part of the kingdom of Suhu. The city was situated on the east bank of the Euphrates, a few kilometres downstream of Anat (Anatho). The modern city of the same name (Ad Dawālī) is on the river's west bank. The city's ancient name is not known.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:945906723
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:945906723
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 34.453536, 41.991191
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Dawali is a site in the middle of the Euphrates region and was part of the kingdom of Suhu. The city was situated on the east bank of the Euphrates, a few kilometres downstream of Anat (Anatho). The modern city of the same name (Ad Dawālī) is on the river's west bank. The city's ancient name is not known.
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: No separate provenance note is supplied by the source record.
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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