Carchemish (Extinct city) (Geographic Name)
- Barak (Extinct city)
- Carchemus (Extinct city)
- Djerabis (Extinct city)
- Europas (Extinct city)
- Jarablos (Extinct city)
- Kargamış (Extinct city)
- Karkamıș (Extinct city)
- Broader heading: Extinct cities Turkey
- Broader heading: Turkey Antiquities
Work cat.: Euphrates River Valley settlement : the Carchemish sector in the third millennium BC, 2007: preface (Carchemish, one of the great capital cities of the Ancient Near East)
Carchemish : report on the excavations at Jerablus on behalf of the British Museum, 1978.
GEOnet, Oct. 31, 2007: (Kargamış [unverified], variants: Karkamış, Carchemish, Barak; historical site; 36°55ʹ00ʺN, 038°00ʹ00ʺ E; Gaziantep district, Turkey)
LC database, Nov. 14, 2007 (hdg.: Carchemish)
Britannica online, Oct. 31, 2007 (Carchemish (Roman: Europus), ancient city-state located in what is now S. Turkey, along Syrian border; lay on W. bank of Euphrates River near modern town Jarabulus (N. Syria), and 38 miles SE of Gaziantep, Turkey; Hittite conqueror Suppiluliumas (c. 1375 35 BC) established his son as king of the city, which he used as a buffer state against Assyria, Mitanni, and Egypt; site, occupying over 230 acres, was excavated 1911 20 by David G. Hogarth and later by Sir Leonard Woolley)
Wikipedia, Oct. 31, 2007: (Carchemus (called "Europas" by Romans), important city of Mitanni and Hittite empires; city known locally as "Jarablos," linking it to Biblical city of Jerablus; corrupted form, "Djerabis"; city commanded main ford across Euphrates; location identified 1876 by George Smith, had previously been misidentified with Circesium)