Belkania

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Third Asiatic Map of Ptolemy. Belkania .

Belkania ( Greek Βελκανία ; Latin Belcania ) is a place name that Ptolemaios used in his Geographia set of coordinates created around 150 as one of the places ( πόλεις ) in ancient Greater Armenia with 73 ° 30 'longitude ( Ptolemaic longitudes ) and 39 ° 40' Width is specified.

After Adolf Baumgartner was Belkania a city of Greater Armenia near the Thospitis , the area of Lake Van , and was between the rivers Euphrates and Tigris , west of the ancient Corduene .

Remarks

  1. ↑ Ptolemy 5:13, 9 .
  2. ↑ La Geografia di Claudio Tolomeo alessandrino, già tradotta di greco in italiano da M. Giero. Ruscelli: & hora in questa nuoua editione da M. Gio. Malombra ricorretta, & purgata d'infiniti errori: ... Con l'Espositioni del Ruscelli, ... Con vna copiosa tauola de 'nomi antichi, dichiarati co' nomi moderni: dal Malombra riueduta, & ampliata. Et con vn Discorso di M. Gioseppe Moleto, Claudius Ptolemaeus, appresso Giordano Ziletti, 1574, p.251 ; Claudius Ptolemäus 5,13,9 (p. 156 ed. Β.), ( P. 53 in Claudii Ptolemaei Geographia, Volume 1, Claudio Ptolomeo sumtibus et typis Caroli Tauchnitii, 1843)
  3. ↑ Adolf Baumgartner : Belkania . In: Paulys Realencyclopadie der classischen Antiquity Science (RE). Volume III, 1, Stuttgart 1897, Col. 240.

literature

  • Alfred Stückelberger, Gerd Graßhoff (ed.): Ptolemaios, Handbook of Geography (Greek-German) . Schwabe Verlag, Basel 2006, ISBN 3-7965-2148-7 (work in 2 half-volumes, with CD-ROM).

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