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Kas(h)kar

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jul 26, 2022 10:08 PM — History
Kas(h)kar was a significant Sasanian city, originally built on the west bank of the Tigris river in what is now modern Iraq's al-Kut district. A major flood in antiquity moved the channel of the Tigris, leaving Kashkar on the east bank. The city was supplanted by the new city of Wasit, built in the 8th century CE; Kashkar was subsequently abandoned. The original city is presumed to have lain somewhere in the vicinity of the modern residential area northeast of modern Wasit, across the heavily-controlled modern Tigris.

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settlement, settlement-modern

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 93 C1 Kas(h)kar

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: opposite Wasit IRQ


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A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, St J. Simpson, R. Wenke, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, P. Flensted Jensen, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kas(h)kar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <http://3.22.44.247/places/912880> [accessed: 05 July 2025] 

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