|
|
|
|
|
|
Research Home
Tools Thesaurus of Geographic Names Full Record Display
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Vernacular Display | English Display |
|
|
|
|
|
|
Click the icon to view the hierarchy. |
|
|
Tell Mardikh (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
Lat: 35 47 52 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 35.7980 decimal degrees |
Long: 036 47 52 E degrees minutes |
Long: 36.7980 decimal degrees |
|
Note: Ancient city-state located ca. 30 miles SW of Aleppo; a commercial power that controlled most of Syria; early Bronze Age city destroyed ca. 2250 BCE and again ca. 2000 BCE; fortified in middle Bronze Age; finally completely destroyed by Hittites ca. 1600 BCE. |
Names: |
|
Tell Mardikh (preferred,C,V)
|
Ebla (C,V,S)
|
تل مرديخ, (C,V,Arabic,U)
|
إبلا, (C,V,Arabic,U)
|
|
Hierarchical Position: |
|
|
.... |
Asia (continent) (P) |
|
............ |
Ḩalab (governorate) (P) |
|
Place Types: |
|
deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
............ |
site of an ancient metropolis of a pre-Canaanite Semitic culture dating from ca. 2400-2000 BC |
archaeological site (C) |
............ |
excavated 1960s-1970s; in 1975 some 15,000 cuneiform clay tablets were found in palace ruins |
tell (C) |
|
inhabited place (H) |
|
city-state (H) |
............ |
flourished ca. 2400 BC to ca. 1600 BC |
Bronze Age (H) |
|
|
Related geographic places: |
|
near/adjacent to .... |
Ḥalab .......... (inhabited place) |
.............................. |
(World, Asia, Syria, Ḩalab) [7002252] |
|
Sources and Contributors: |
|
|