Historical place profile
Saar Site
Early Dilmun settlement founded as early as 2300 BCE, with the main phase of the town being built around 1900 BCE. The site, which is located in modern Bahrain, continued in use around 100-200 years after the establishment of this main phase.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:56036938
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:56036938
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 26.184000, 50.489948
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Early Dilmun settlement founded as early as 2300 BCE, with the main phase of the town being built around 1900 BCE. The site, which is located in modern Bahrain, continued in use around 100-200 years after the establishment of this main phase.
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
Compare this place with the chronological map at the relevant year, nearby political units, routes, institutions and the period portals. Where the source record is silent about jurisdiction, population or ecclesiastical rank, this profile makes no such claim.