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Carchemish (Extinct city)


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    • Barak (Extinct city)
    • Carchemus (Extinct city)
    • Djerabis (Extinct city)
    • Europas (Extinct city)
    • Jarablos (Extinct city)
    • Kargamış (Extinct city)
    • Karkamıș (Extinct city)

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    • found: Work cat.: Euphrates River Valley settlement : the Carchemish sector in the third millennium BC, 2007:preface (Carchemish, one of the great capital cities of the Ancient Near East)
    • found: Carchemish : report on the excavations at Jerablus on behalf of the British Museum, 1978.
    • found: GEOnet, Oct. 31, 2007:(Kargamış [unverified], variants: Karkamış, Carchemish, Barak; historical site; 36°55ʹ00ʺN, 038°00ʹ00ʺ E; Gaziantep district, Turkey)
    • found: LC database, Nov. 14, 2007(hdg.: Carchemish)
    • found: Britannica online, Oct. 31, 2007(Carchemish (Roman: Europus), ancient city-state located in what is now S. Turkey, along Syrian border; lay on W. bank of Euphrates River near modern town Jarabulus (N. Syria), and 38 miles SE of Gaziantep, Turkey; Hittite conqueror Suppiluliumas (c. 1375 35 BC) established his son as king of the city, which he used as a buffer state against Assyria, Mitanni, and Egypt; site, occupying over 230 acres, was excavated 1911 20 by David G. Hogarth and later by Sir Leonard Woolley)
    • found: Wikipedia, Oct. 31, 2007:(Carchemus (called "Europas" by Romans), important city of Mitanni and Hittite empires; city known locally as "Jarablos," linking it to Biblical city of Jerablus; corrupted form, "Djerabis"; city commanded main ford across Euphrates; location identified 1876 by George Smith, had previously been misidentified with Circesium)

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    • 2007-11-02: new
    • 2007-12-21: revised

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