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Tagsbirecik
3 places carry this tag, across every kind and continent it appears in.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf-Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA/Uruk (5900–3100 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk (North Mesopotamian painted then Uruk expansion)
Halaf-Ubaid (5900–4800 BCE) Uruk-contact village — 4 ha buried Euphrates village, Birecik Dam salvage type-site.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Tell
Halaf → Northern Ubaid → Late Chalcolithic → EBA (6200–3000 BCE) · Halaf-Ubaid → Uruk fringe
Halaf-Ubaid village (6200–5000 BCE) — 3 ha Euphrates hamlet, Pollock Birecik Dam salvage.
🇹🇷 Turkey · Ancient city
Hellenistic to Sassanid sack 252 CE · Seleucid → Roman → Parthian frontier
Twin Hellenistic foundation (Seleucia on Euphrates + Apamea opposite) bridging the Euphrates by Alexander's engineers, Roman legionary base and Parthian toll city (wealth from Euphrates crossing).
