Ašnakkum

settlement · 10000 BC – 2100 AD

Town in the Khabur River basin in Northern Syria, now known as Chagar Bazar. First settled in the Neolithic Period, the town appears to have been abandoned during the Early Bronze Age. It was resettled in the Early Dynastic period, becoming an administrative center of the Old Assyrian Empire.

Coordinates

36.87555, 40.89773

Also known as

Aš-na-ki (akk), Chagar Bazar (en), Chagar Bazar, Shāghar Bāzār, Jāghir Bāzār, Šagir Bazar, Shagar Bazar (arb), Tall Shāghir Bāzār (ar), تل شاغر بازار (ar), شاغربازار (arb)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)
• Wikidata · CC0 1.0
  Wikidata (CC0)

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