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Qalaichi

Also known as Qalaichi Tepe

Qalaichi is an archaeological site near Bukan in West Azerbaijan province, north-western Iran, linked with the Mannaean kingdom of the early 1st millennium BCE. Excavations found a fortified building decorated with glazed bricks and fragments of an Aramaic stele of the 8th century BCE. Some scholars identify it with the Mannaean capital Izirtu.

Qalaichi
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Qalaichi. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/qalaichi
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