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Location

  • Pakistan, Akbarabad
  • geo:34.167473,71.73822
  • Location: correct and verified

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Classification

  • city
  • Visible

Peucelaotis

data access 18320

Nearby sites

  • Pushkalavati (Bala Hissar site)
    Late Bronze / Iron Age to 2nd c. BCE town settlement. Identified as the first site of ancient capital of Gandhara : Pushkalavati (Sanskrit "Lotus City"), before its second foundation at Shaikhan Dheri site.
  • Pushkalavati - Peucelaitis (Shaikhan Dheri site)
    Town settlement, occupied from Indo-Greek period until the 2th c. CE, identified as the second foundation of Pushkalavati, also named Peucelaitis during Indo-Greek times. Partially covered by modern urbanisation.
  • Majuki Dherai
    Indo-Greek to ealy medieval Islamic town settlement. Current large archaeological mound, its northern part covered by Charsadda cemetery, its southern part covered by urbanisation.
  • Unidentified site
    Probable settlement. Located with satellite imagery.

Use and reuse

Creators: Entry created by Jona Lendering (2014-03-22) , last updated by René Voorburg (2016-12-31), with possible contributions by others. CC BY-SA 4.0, metadata CC-0.
Persistent URI: https://vici.org/vici/18320
Data downloads: KML
Suggested citation: Lendering, J. and Voorburg, R., Peucelaotis. https://vici.org/vici/18320, accessed 2026-06-28.