Qumis, Iran

Coordinates: 35°57′03.8″N 54°06′46.10″E / 35.951056°N 54.1128056°E / 35.951056; 54.1128056
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Hecatompylus
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For the region in Persia, see Qumis (region).
For the Thebes in Egypt which was also called Hecatompylos, see Thebes, Egypt.
Šahr-e Qumis
شهر قومس
Semnan Province, Iran
RegionQumis region
Coordinates35°57′03.8″N 54°06′46.10″E / 35.951056°N 54.1128056°E / 35.951056; 54.1128056
TypeSettlement
History
CulturesParthian, Persian
Site notes
ConditionIn ruins

Qumis (

Greek name Hekatompylos means "one hundred gates" and the Persian term has the same meaning. The title was commonly used for cities which had more than the traditional four gates. It may be understood better as the "Many Gated". Most scholars locate it at Sahr -e Qumis, in the Qumis region in west Khurasan, Iran.[1]

Alexander the Great stopped here in the summer of 330 BCE and it became part of the Seleucid Empire after his death. The Parni tribe took the city around 237 BCE and made it one of the first capitals of their Parthian Empire. It was mentioned as the royal city of the Parthians by a number of classical writers including Strabo, Pliny, and Ptolemy, although the Parthians seemed to have used a number of cities as their "capital" at different periods.

Qumis was destroyed

Semnan Province
.

In 2011 plans for an "International Project of Tourism & Recreational City" were published, using the name of Hecatompylos. The project envisions using an area of 250 hectares (620 acres) close to the city of Damghan, which would place the resort at about 30 km (19 mi) northeast of the historic site.[2]

Citations

  1. ISBN 978-0-520-95356-7
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  2. ^ "Hecatompilos/Intro". 2011-02-08. Archived from the original on 2011-02-08. Retrieved 2020-07-23.

References

  • De Quincey, Thomas (1821). Confessions of an English Opium-Eater. Penguin Books. 1979.
  • Frye, Richard N. (1962). The Heritage of Persia. Toronto. Mentor Books. 1966.
  • Goodarzi, P., Dehpahlavan, M., Sołtysiak, A. (2018). "Human remains from Shahr-i Qumis, Iran, 1967-1978", Bioarchaeology of the Near East 12:89-94.
  • Hansman, J. (1968). "The Problems of Qūmis". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1968), pp. 111–139.
  • Hansman, John and Stronach, David (1974). "Excavations at Shahr-i Qūmis, 1971". Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (1974), pp. 8–22.
  • Hirth, Friedrich (1875). China and the Roman Orient. Shanghai and Hong Kong. Unchanged reprint. Chicago, Ares Publishers, 1975.
  • Tarn, William Woodthorpe (1984). The Greeks in Bactria and India. First published in 1938; 2nd Updated Edition, 1951. 3rd Edition, updated with a Preface and a new bibliography by Frank Lee Holt. Ares Publishers, Inc., Chicago. 1984.

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