Historical place profile

Tell Habuba Kabira

The northernmost of two associated settlements located on the western bank of the Euphrates, showing signs of habitation from the Late Uruk period through the Middle Bronze Age. Rescue excavations were conducted at the site before it was inundated by the Tabqa Dam Reservoir in the early 1970s.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:923122730
Catalogue ID
pleiades:923122730
Place type
archaeological-site, settlement
Coordinates
36.150189, 38.060867
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

The northernmost of two associated settlements located on the western bank of the Euphrates, showing signs of habitation from the Late Uruk period through the Middle Bronze Age. Rescue excavations were conducted at the site before it was inundated by the Tabqa Dam Reservoir in the early 1970s.

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

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