Eğrikale

settlement · 550 BC – 1999 AD

Ruins of an old town or castle on the tall "Felsberg Egri Kalch" near the mouth of the Halys river that were formerly posited as an identification for Herodotus' "Pteria" (thus RE whence BAtlas 87, which labeled Eğrikale with "Pteria" using a hollow settlement symbol). Pteria is now thought much more probably to be associated with the large 7th/6th century site at Kerkenes Dağı to the southwest, q.v.

Coordinates

41.32153, 35.10877

Also known as

Egri Kalch (de), Egri Kalch (de), Pteria (en), Pteria

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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