Historical place profile
Urta Buz
A site located on a natural promontory in Takhar Province near the Taluqan River. The settlement mound includes occupation horizons ranging from the Bronze Age (second millennium B.C.) to the Hellenistic period with some Kushan and Islamic material as well.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:971901
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:971901
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 37.647132, 68.662922
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
A site located on a natural promontory in Takhar Province near the Taluqan River. The settlement mound includes occupation horizons ranging from the Bronze Age (second millennium B.C.) to the Hellenistic period with some Kushan and Islamic material as well.
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 99 C2 Urta Buz
Source and reuse
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Research path
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