Historical place profile
Guganis
Guganis (Göganis) is an abandoned village in the Hayots Dzor valley, situated in the plain of Gürpınar in the south-east of Turkey. Here a column base with an inscription of the Urartian king Argišti, son of Minua (8th century BCE), was found which was re-used and engraved with an Armenian cross and an Armenian inscription and graffiti (CTU A 8-38)
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:711629031
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:711629031
- Place type
- findspot, settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 38.329554, 43.234264
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Guganis (Göganis) is an abandoned village in the Hayots Dzor valley, situated in the plain of Gürpınar in the south-east of Turkey. Here a column base with an inscription of the Urartian king Argišti, son of Minua (8th century BCE), was found which was re-used and engraved with an Armenian cross and an Armenian inscription and graffiti (CTU A 8-38)
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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