Historical place profile
Jebel Khayabir/Alexandria?/Antiochia?/Spasinou Charax?/Karkh Maisan?/[Astarabad Ardashir]?
Close to Jebel Khayabir in Iraq, this site was an important mercantile center of southern Mesopotamia and capital of Characene. It may have been founded as an Alexandria by Alexander the Great and refounded as an Antioch by Antiochos IV.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:912872
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:912872
- Place type
- settlement, urban
- Coordinates
- 30.809342, 47.562804
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Close to Jebel Khayabir in Iraq, this site was an important mercantile center of southern Mesopotamia and capital of Characene. It may have been founded as an Alexandria by Alexander the Great and refounded as an Antioch by Antiochos IV.
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 93 D3 Jebel Khayabir/Alexandria?/Antiochia?/Spasinou Charax?/Karkh Maisan?/[Astarabad Ardashir]?
Source and reuse
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Research path
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