Edremit
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Apr 27, 2021 07:28 AM
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History
Edremit is a modern settlement and associated administrative region in the Van Province in the southeast of Turkey. In the vicinity, several inscriptions on rock and stone of the Urartian king Minua (9th / 8th century BCE) have been found which report the construction of the 'Canal of Minua'. In Greek and Roman times, Ptolemy gives the name "Artemita" for a settlement that modern scholars believe was located at Edremit.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/874362
38.4275714626, 43.2468650726
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of Modern Edremit (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of Edremit administrative area (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 21443 (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Արտամետ (Artamet: Armenian, modern)
- Artamid (Kurdish, unspecified date range)
- ᾽Αρτέμιτα (Artemita: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Artemêt (Kurdish, unspecified date range)
- Edremit (Turkish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Ertemêtan (Kurdish, modern)
- Gümüşdere (Turkish, modern)
- Sarmansuyu (Turkish, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Edremit part of (administrative) Urartu (unspecified date range)
- Hazine Piri Kapısı located near Edremit (unspecified date range)
findspot, place of finding, settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 F2 Artemita
One of the cuneiform inscriptions is on a monument known as "Hazine Piri Kapısı".
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Birgit Christiansen , 'Edremit: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/874362> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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