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09 December 2025

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Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

39 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

e237ff99 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
3ad25d29 - updated gis package
dcadd1f7 - updated data quality
f958b8ec - updated bibliography
3d59a68d - updated indexes
8ba20705 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

e49431e3 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

bfebc2fe - updated pleiades wikidata

08 December 2025

Last week in the (1-8 December 2025) the Pleiades editorial college published 8 new and 441 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, R. Scott Smith, Scott Vanderbilt and Enes Yılandiloğlu.

A list of all new and changed resources, complete with titles, descriptions, bylines, change summaries, and links to the actual gazetteer entries, as well as an overview map, may be read on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la

08 December 2025

Export Updates 2025-12-08:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

8 new and 116 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

ce2f0fe1 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
aa5aa265 - updated gis package
b0683460 - updated data quality
b6b5cce9 - updated bibliography
4b6edc88 - updated indexes
b5e676f5 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

f313b5b7 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

6d8abf43 - updated pleiades wikidata

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 15 new and 466 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Sean Manning, Gabriel Mckee, David Meadows, John Muccigrosso, Gethin Rees, R. Scott Smith, Richard Talbert, and Enes Yılandiloğlu.
Last Week in Pleiades (27 October - 3 November 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to northern Mongolia and Sri Lanka in the east.

New Place Resources

  • Akontion (Boeotian mountain)
    The narrow mountain ridge in Boiotia that, at its eastern tip, supports the acropolis of Orchomenos. Today, the ridge is mostly encapsulated by a modern wildlife refuge.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Burkhan Khaldun
    Burkhan Khaldun is a mountain that forms part of one of the Khentii Mountains located in the Khentii Province of northeastern Mongolia. The mountain and/or its vicinity is believed to be the birthplace and site of the tomb of Genghis Khan. The mountain and its landscapes were inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 4 July 2015 under the heading "Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape."
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Caleorsissa
    An ancient place in Cappadocia located on the route between Olotoedariza and Analib(l)a.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Chryssi-Gaidouronisi
    The archaeological remains of a small Minoan settlement of approximately 12-20 houses on the island of Chryssi. Evidence for murex processing was discovered during excavations conducted in 2008.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Catherine Bouras
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Erechtheis
    Erechtheis was one of the 10 tribes (phylae) of ancient Athens created by Cleisthenes in his reformation of Athenian law in the late sixth century BCE. The phyle had fourteen demes and derived its name from the legendary king Erechtheus.
    Creators: JS Traill
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Euripides cave
    Tradition connected the so-called "Euripides cave" on Salamis with the tragedian, based at least in part on claims made by Aulus Gellius.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Horti Domitiae
    The gardens of Domitia Longina, the wife of Domitian, in Rome. The gardens were located on the right bank of the Tiber River, and the Mausoleum of Hadrian was built within their confines. The toponym persists as late as the reign of Aurelian.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Iron Gates Wall (Darband, Uzbekistan)
    A fortification system west of modern Darband in Uzbekistan that controlled a 20-kilometer-long corridor through the Hissar mountain range along the valley of the modern Shurob river. Originally constructed in the third century BCE, this barrier has been repeatedly renewed and reconstructed through to the 14th century and can still be seen today.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Contributors: David Meadows
    Published by: Jeffrey Becker
  • Kanakia
    The Mycenaean acropolis of Kanakia is located on the island of Salamis.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Leontis
    Leontis was a phyle (tribe) of Ancient Attica.
    Creators: JS Traill
    Contributors: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Mount Ebal
    Mountain located north of the city of Neapolis.
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Pincian obelisk
    The so-called Pincian obelisk is a monument of red granite that Hadrian brought to Rome from Egypt. It bears hieroglyphics that were likely cut at Rome and seem to indicate that the monument in some way commemorated the place where Antinous was buried. Fragments of the monument were re-erected near the Porta Maggiore in 1570. The Barberini relocated it in 1663, and it was transferred to the Vatican under Clement XIV. Pius VII transferred it to the Pincian in 1882, and it now stands in Piazza Bucarest along the Viale dell'Obelisco (Pincio).
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Shrine of Dionysos
    A rural shrine sacred to Dionysos located at Peristeria, Salamina in Salamis, Attica. The shrine is in the vicinity of the so-called "Cave of Euripides".
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Brady Kiesling
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Strait of Otranto
    Narrow stretch of the Adriatic Sea separating Puglia and Chaonia (southern Albania).
    Creators: Gabriel Mckee
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Werthausen
    A Roman fort of the Limes of Germania Inferior.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources