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Qal‘at aş Şāliḩīyah (deserted settlement) |
Coordinates: |
| Lat: 34 45 03 N degrees minutes |
Lat: 34.7517 decimal degrees |
| Long: 040 43 37 E degrees minutes |
Long: 40.7279 decimal degrees |
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Note: Was a Hellenistic, Parthian, and Roman border city built on an escarpment 90 m above the right bank of the Euphrates river, across the river from modern Salihiyah. Was a caravan center located on the Syrian Euphrates; Babylonian town, then founded as military colony by Seleucids ca. 300 BCE; was laid out with Hellenistic grid plan by Macedonians; Parthians made this a frontier fortress against Romans ca. 100 BCE; was Roman, then captured & destroyed by Sasanians 256 CE. The city was pillaged and never rebuilt. |
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| Qal‘at aş Şāliḩīyah (preferred,C,V)
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| Aş Şālihīyah (C,V)
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| Qal‘at es Sālihīye (C,V)
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| قلعة الصالحية (C,V,Arabic,U)
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| Dura-Europos (C,V,S)
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| Doura Europos (C,V)
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| Doura-Europos (C,V)
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| Dura Europos (C,V)
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| Dura Europus (C,V)
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| Dura-Europus (C,V)
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| Dura (C,V)
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| Doura (C,V)
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| Europos (C,V)
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| Europus (C,V)
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| Δοῦρα Εὐρωπός (C,V,Greek,U)
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Asia (continent) (P) |
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| deserted settlement (preferred, C) |
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Babylonian town, then founded as military colony by Seleucids ca. 300 BCE, abandoned in 3rd cen. CE |
| archaeological site (C) |
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many finds have been moved to various museums; especially noted for synagogue & Early Christian buildings |
| ruins (C) |
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| inhabited place (H) |
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| caravanserai (H) |
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| Babylonian (H) |
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| Seleucid (H) |
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| Ancient Macedonian (H) |
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| Hellenistic (H) |
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| Parthian (H) |
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| Ancient Roman (H) |
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Related geographic places: |
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Şāliḩīyah .......... (inhabited place) |
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(World, Asia, Syria, Dayr az Zawr) [7594294] |
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