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ID: 6000137
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/6000137
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Tell Atchana (deserted settlement)  Tell Atchana (deserted settlement)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 14 16 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.2370  decimal degrees
Long: 036 23 05 E  degrees minutes   Long: 36.3840  decimal degrees

Note: Was an ancient city and capital of city-state in 3rd and 2nd millennium BCE. It was located on the lower Orontes river around 10 miles east of ancient Antioch, and was a Sumerian outpost through which cuneiform writing and Sumerian culture was passed to the Hittites and others.

Names:
Tell Atchana (preferred,C,V)
Atchana (H,V,S)
Alakakh (H,V)
Alalaḫ (H,V)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Turkey (nation)  ........  Turkey (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Hatay (province)  ............  Hatay (province) (P)
Hierarchy of Tell Atchana (deserted settlement)  ................  Tell Atchana (deserted settlement) (P)

Place Types:
deserted settlement (preferred, C)  ............  thrived ca. 2600-ca. 1190 BC as trading post for ivory & cedar wood
archaeological site (C)  ............  famed for remains of large palace
inhabited place (H)
Bronze Age (H)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Kıyıbucak .......... (deserted settlement)
..............................  (World, Asia, Turkey, Hatay) [7032503]

Sources and Contributors:
Alakakh..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Alalaḫ..........  [VP]
.................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Atchana..........  [VP]
.................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
Tell Atchana..........  [VP Preferred]
.......................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 15
Subject: .....  [VP]
..................  Canby, Historic Places (1984) I, 15
..................  Times Atlas of World History (1993) 337
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)

 

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