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ID: 7026093
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/7026093
Record Type:
administrative
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.
Names:
Khorsabad
(
preferred
,
C
,
V
)
Dur Sharrukin
(
H
,
V
,
S
)
دور شروكين
(
H
,
V
,
Arabic
,
U
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Iraq
(nation) (
P
)
............
Al Anbār
(governorate) (
P
)
................
Khorsabad
(inhabited place) (
P
)
Additional Parents:
World
(facet)
....
Asia
(continent) (
P
)
........
Assyria
(former nation/state/empire) (
P,
H
)
............
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..........
[
VP
]
..........................
Iraq, Natural History (2001)
Khorsabad..........
[
VP Preferred
]
....................
Iraq, Natural History (2001)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Iraq, Natural History (2001)
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Canby, Historic Places (1984)
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