Historical place profile
Garsaura/Col. Claudia Archelais/Koloneia
Originally known as Garsaura, this place was a key settlement of the strategia of Garsaouritis. King Archelaus refounded it and named it after himself. Under the Roman emperor Claudius the site received colonial status. The settlement is located at an oasis to the southeast of Tuz Gölü and some 225 km south of Ancyra.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:619164
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:619164
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.370542, 34.026907
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Originally known as Garsaura, this place was a key settlement of the strategia of Garsaouritis. King Archelaus refounded it and named it after himself. Under the Roman emperor Claudius the site received colonial status. The settlement is located at an oasis to the southeast of Tuz Gölü and some 225 km south of Ancyra.
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 63 E4 Garsaura/Col. Claudia Archelais/Koloneia
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