Balagrae
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 25, 2022 06:09 PM
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History
Balagrae (modern El Beida or Al Bayda, Libya) was an ancient settlement of Cyrenaica and is perhaps best known for its Asclepium.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373749
32.761399, 21.756437
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 11635 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Balagrae (330 BC - AD 640)
- Balagrae part of (regional) Pentapolis (unspecified date range)
- Sanctuary of Asklepios, Balagrae located at Balagrae (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 38 C1 Balagrae
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Beida
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Balagrae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/373749> [accessed: 10 April 2025]
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