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Pekod

approximate location

located between Uruk and Elam, "but especially active around the Tigris", so this point is approximately due east of Uruk at the Tigris (Routledge Handbook of the Peoples and Places of Ancient Western Asia (2009))

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Skip the map 15°E 20°E 25°E 30°E 35°E 40°E 45°E 50°E 28°N 32°N 36°N 40°N Shoa SHOA Merathaim Merathaim Koa KOA Chaldea CHALDEA Pekod PEKOD 50 mi scriptoria.digital Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

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city known location approximate debated 5 places · c. AD 30-62 · modern coastline: harbors have silted up over two thousand years · drag and zoom · Place data: OpenBible.info, CC BY 4.0

WITH CHALDEA · KOA · MERATHAIM · SHOA, named in the same passages

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Panorama of a river in Pekod.

Panorama of a river in Pekod.

PHOTO: احمد حبيب الغرابي CC BY-SA 4.0 Wikimedia Commons

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COORDINATES 31.3611, 47.4496

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