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ID: 6000639
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000639
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Barbalissus (historic site)  Barbalissus (historic site)

Coordinates:
Lat: 35 50 09 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 35.8366  decimal degrees
Long: 038 18 07 E  degrees minutes   Long: 38.3026  decimal degrees

Note: Site of battle in 253 CE in which Shāpūr I, Persian king of the Sasanian dynasty, defeated Roman forces.

Names:
Barbalissus (preferred,C,V)
Balis (C,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Sūrīyah (nation)  ........  Sūrīyah (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Ḩalab (governorate)  ............  Ḩalab (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Barbalissus (historic site)  ................  Barbalissus (historic site) (P)

Place Types:
historic site (preferred, C)  ............  former Roman fort
battlefield (H)
fort (H)  ............  during Roman times, 200 CE

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Maskanah .......... (inhabited place)
..............................  (World, Asia, Syria, Ḩalab) [1085204]

Sources and Contributors:
Balis..........  [VP]
..............  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Barbalissus..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
.......................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Times Atlas of World History (1989)

 

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