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ID: 7026093
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026093
 
Record Type: administrative
Hierarchy of Khorsabad (inhabited place)  Khorsabad (inhabited place)

Coordinates:
Lat: 36 30 34 N  degrees minutes   Lat: 36.5090  decimal degrees
Long: 043 13 46 E  degrees minutes   Long: 43.2290  decimal degrees

Note: Current village that is the site of a palace complex of Sargon II, king of the last Assyrian dynasty of the 8th century BCE. In 1932, hundreds of cuneiform tablets were excavated here. Located in: Iraq

Names:
Khorsabad (preferred,C,V)
Dur Sharrukin (H,V,S)
دور شروكين‎ (H,V,Arabic,U)

Hierarchical Position:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Iraq (nation)  ........  Iraq (nation) (P)
Hierarchy of Al Anbār (governorate)  ............  Al Anbār (governorate) (P)
Hierarchy of Khorsabad (inhabited place)  ................  Khorsabad (inhabited place) (P)

Additional Parents:
Hierarchy of World (facet)    World (facet)
Hierarchy of Asia (continent)  ....  Asia (continent) (P)
Hierarchy of Assyria (former nation/state/empire)  ........  Assyria (former nation/state/empire) (P,H)
Hierarchy of Khorsabad (inhabited place)  ............  Khorsabad (inhabited place) (P,H)

Place Types:
inhabited place (preferred, C)  ............  flourished 1st mill. BCE; now a village
village (C)
archaeological site (C)

Related geographic places:
near/adjacent to ....  Mosul .......... (inhabited place)
..............................  (World, Asia, Iraq, Nīnawá) [7002471]

Sources and Contributors:
دور شروكين‎..........  [VP]
.......................  Archaeology Magazine [online] (2000-)
Dur Sharrukin..........  [BWR Preferred, VP]
..........................  BWR database (2010-)
..........................  Iraq, Natural History (2001)
Khorsabad..........  [VP Preferred]
....................  Iraq, Natural History (2001)
Subject: .....  [BWR, VP]
..................  BWR Data Reconciliation for CONA (2020-2021) BWR-12
..................  BWR database (2010-)
..................  Iraq, Natural History (2001)
 
Note:
English .......... [VP]
..........  BWR database (2010-)
..........  Canby, Historic Places (1984)

 

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