Historical place profile
Urbnisi
Settlement in central Georgia showing signs of continuous inhabitation from the third millennium BCE through the present. It was a substantial center of the region in the 4th century BCE and in the early Medieval period (6th-7th centuries CE).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:863914
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:863914
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 42.012500, 43.980833
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Settlement in central Georgia showing signs of continuous inhabitation from the third millennium BCE through the present. It was a substantial center of the region in the 4th century BCE and in the early Medieval period (6th-7th centuries CE).
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 88 B2 Urbnisi
Source and reuse
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Research path
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