Historical place profile
Guzana (Tell Halaf)
An Aramaean principality and Neo-Assyrian provincial capital founded on the site of an extinct Neolithic settlement. Settled through Hellenistic times, it was abandoned at the end of the first century BCE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:874739
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:874739
- Place type
- archaeological-site, estate, sanctuary, settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.826730, 40.039677
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An Aramaean principality and Neo-Assyrian provincial capital founded on the site of an extinct Neolithic settlement. Settled through Hellenistic times, it was abandoned at the end of the first century BCE.
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 89 C4 Tell Halaf/[Guzana]
Source and reuse
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Research path
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