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Provincial capitals · Mysteria

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Provincial capitals

Every place in the atlas labelled provincial capitals.

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🇸🇾 Syria · Ancient city

Dur-Katlimmu

Middle Bronze Age to Late Antiquity (c.1800 BCE–300 CE), peak Assyrian 800–600 BCE · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian → Parthian

Lower Khabur Assyrian capital 55 ha (600 tablets, Red House archive, canal) 70 km NE Deir ez-Zor.

🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell

Ziyaret Tepe (Tušhan)

Bronze Age veneer → Neo-Assyrian provincial (Iron Age) · Mitanni → Middle/Neo-Assyrian (Ashurnasirpal II–Ashurbanipal)

Assyrian imperial capital Tušhan (883–611 BCE) — 32 ha citadel + lower town with palace, palace ware and Tigris quay, burned at Median fall, Upper Tigris frontier.