Historical place profile
Dohuk
Dohuk is the capital of Dohuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. The modern city is located around the ancient site; the University of Dohuk campus is situated on top of the ruins of the ancient city (name not known).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:955792756
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:955792756
- Place type
- findspot, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 36.862398, 42.919958
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Dohuk is the capital of Dohuk Governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. The modern city is located around the ancient site; the University of Dohuk campus is situated on top of the ruins of the ancient city (name 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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