Historical place profile
Hacımusalar Höyük
A large settlement mound in modern Turkey's Elmalı basin where habitation from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine period has been documented. The city was known to Greek and Roman authors as Choma.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:638803
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:638803
- Place type
- settlement, tell
- Coordinates
- 36.642382, 29.836009
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A large settlement mound in modern Turkey's Elmalı basin where habitation from the Early Bronze Age through the Byzantine period has been documented. The city was known to Greek and Roman authors as Choma.
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 65 C4 Choma
Source and reuse
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Research path
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