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Site co-ordinates are provided in decimal latitude and longitude values. Click on a data source under the Satellite View column to see the site from above, or click the button in the Coordinates column to paste a location’s co-ordinates to your device’s clipboard. Sites with accompanying websites are now being added to the Web column.
The co-ordinates of sites listed with a ? are uncertain: either the reference is inexact or tentative, or the location’s attribution is unsafe. Please feel free to suggest updates and provide corrections.
Some of the major sites are shown on the map below.
| Site | Satellite View | Coordinates | Web |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alalah/Alalakh (mod. Tell Atchana) Amorite city founded MBA | |||
| Aleppo Major site dating back to the EBA at least | |||
| Carchemish City inhabited from the Neolithic and later a Hittite centre | |||
| Ebla (mod. Tell Mardikh) Imperial city founded in the Neolithic. Destroyed by the Hittites | |||
| Emar (mod. Tell Meskene) Bronze Age trading center | |||
| Harran (anc. Carrhae) Major center first inhabited in the Chalcolithic | |||
| Kadesh (mod. Tell Nebi Mend) City dating back to the Chalcolithic | |||
| Mari (mod. Tell Hariri) Semitic city state dating to the EBA | |||
| Qatna/Qatanum (mod. Tell al-Mishrifeh) Semitic sity from the Late Chalcolithic | |||
| Terqa (mod. Tell Ashara) City by the Euphrates variously under the control of many nearby states | |||
| Tuttul (mod. Tell Bi’a) MBA town | |||
| Ugarit Neolithic walled city destroyed at the end of the Bronze Age |
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