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Qal‘at ‘Awaynah

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Carolin Johansson, Rune Rattenborg Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).

Last modified Jan 23, 2023 05:24 PM — History

tags: ANE, Cuneiform

Stronghold with traces of Assyrian buildings where inscribed blocks have been found. Possibly ancient Alše.

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Canonical URI for this page:
http://3.22.44.247/places/872004919

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.0754, 43.7195

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: CIGS location of Qal‘at ‘Awaynah (1000 BC - 1 BC) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- قلعة عوينة (Qal‘at ‘Awaynah: Arabic, unspecified date range)

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Qal‘at ‘Awaynah receives connections from:

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Place type:
archaeological site

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Carolin Johansson, and Rune Rattenborg, 'Qal‘at ‘Awaynah: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <http://3.22.44.247/places/872004919> [accessed: 04 July 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=http://3.22.44.247/places/872004919 |title=Places: 872004919 (Qal‘at ‘Awaynah) |author=Johansson, C., R. Rattenborg |accessdate=July 4, 2025 11:25 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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