Historical place profile

Toprak Kala

The site of a walled Chorasmian city, inhabited from the first to the sixth centuries CE, is located approximately 40 kilometers north of the Afrighid capital city of Kath.

Record details
Research ID
catholon:place:pleiades:591310837
Catalogue ID
pleiades:591310837
Place type
settlement
Coordinates
41.927317, 60.822904
Precision
precise
Locator semantics
representative_point_not_boundary

Historical description

The site of a walled Chorasmian city, inhabited from the first to the sixth centuries CE, is located approximately 40 kilometers north of the Afrighid capital city of Kath.

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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