Turkey
Gaziantep Province
Karkamış İlçesi

Carchemish

Carchemish, also spelled Karkemish, was an important ancient capital in the northern part of the region of Syria. At times during its history the city was independent, but it was also part of the Mitanni, Hittite and Neo-Assyrian Empires.
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  • Type: Tourist attraction
  • Description: ancient city in Turkey / Syria
  • Also known as: “Barak”, “Gargamiš”, and “Kargamiš”

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Jarabulus and Karkamış.

Town
is a city administratively belonging to . lies on the western bank of the and north of , just south of the Syria–Turkey border and the Turkish town of .

is a small border town in , noted for being the site of the ancient city of Carchemish.

Village
is a neighbourhood in the municipality and district of , , . The village had a population of 61 in 2022 and is inhabited by Turkmens of the Barak tribe. is situated 2½ km west of Carchemish.

Carchemish

Latitude
36.8294° or 36° 49′ 46″ north
Longitude
38.01556° or 38° 0′ 56″ east
Elevation
338 metres (1,109 feet)
Open location code
8G8WR2H8+Q6
Open­Street­Map ID
way 183691261
Open­Street­Map feature
historic=­archaeological_site
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­attraction
Geo­Names ID
309135
Wiki­data ID
Q283680
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Venetian—“Carchemish” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كركميش”
  • Armenian: “Կարքեմիշ”
  • Azerbaijani: “Karkemiş”
  • Basque: “Karkemish”
  • Bulgarian: “Каркемиш”
  • Catalan: “Carquemix”
  • Catalan: “Karkemiš”
  • Catalan: “Karkemish”
  • Chinese: “卡尔凯美什”
  • Croatian: “Karkemiš”
  • Czech: “Karchemiš”
  • Dutch: “Karkemish”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “كركميش”
  • Esperanto: “Karkemiŝ”
  • Finnish: “Karkemiš”
  • French: “Karkemish”
  • Galician: “Karkemish”
  • Georgian: “ქარხემიში”
  • German: “Karkemiš”
  • German: “Karkemisch”
  • Greek: “Καρχεμίς”
  • Hebrew: “כרכמיש”
  • Hebrew: “כַּרְכְּמִישׁ”
  • Hungarian: “Karkemis”
  • Indonesian: “Karkemis”
  • Indonesian: “Karkhemish”
  • Irish: “Carchemish”
  • Italian: “Karkemiš”
  • Japanese: “カルケミシュ”
  • Kazakh: “Каркамыш”
  • Kazakh: “Каркемиш”
  • Kazakh: “Кархемис”
  • Kazakh: “Кархемиш”
  • Kazakh: “Кархемыш”
  • Korean: “카르케미시”
  • Lithuanian: “Karkemišas”
  • Malagasy: “Karkemisy”
  • Malay: “Karkemis”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karkemisj”
  • Norwegian: “Karkemisj”
  • Persian: “کاراکامش”
  • Persian: “کارکمیش”
  • Polish: “Karkemisz”
  • Portuguese: “Carquemis”
  • Portuguese: “Carquemish”
  • Romanian: “Carchemiș”
  • Russian: “Каркемиш”
  • Russian: “Каркемыш”
  • Russian: “Кархемис”
  • Russian: “Кархемиш”
  • Russian: “Кархемыш”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Karkemiš”
  • Slovenian: “Karkemiš”
  • South Azerbaijani: “کارکامیش”
  • Spanish: “Karkemish”
  • Swedish: “Karkemisch”
  • Swiss German: “Karkamis”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Karkamis”
  • Turkish: “Carchemish”
  • Turkish: “Europos”
  • Turkish: “Kargamış”
  • Turkish: “Karkamış”
  • Turkish: “Karkemiš”
  • Ukrainian: “Каркемиш”
  • Urdu: “کاراکامش”
  • Urdu: “کرکمیش”
  • Uzbek: “Karxemish”
  • Venetian: “Karkemiš”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Carchemish”. Photo: JoJan, CC BY-SA 3.0.