Historical place profile
Māri
Mari (Tell Hariri) was an ancient Semitic city that flourished as a trade center and hegemonic state between 2900 BC until 1759 BC. The site was submitted as a tentative candidate for the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:286681704
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:286681704
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 34.550339, 40.888620
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Mari (Tell Hariri) was an ancient Semitic city that flourished as a trade center and hegemonic state between 2900 BC until 1759 BC. The site was submitted as a tentative candidate for the UNESCO World Heritage list in 1999.
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: TAVO Index
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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