Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (9-16 February 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 16 new and 393 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Anika Campbell, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, Greta Hawes, Leif Isaksen, Noah Kaye, Brady Kiesling, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Chris de Lisle, Jaume Noguera Vila-Masana, Jordy Didier Orellana Figueroa, R. Scott Smith 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 https://pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/last-week-in-pleiades-9-16-february-2026

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Export Updates 2026-02-13:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

63 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

8feed0c8 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
ebac16ca - updated gis package
5b424458 - updated data quality
e5699429 - updated bibliography
55f20f71 - updated indexes
no change: sidebar

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

cd32baff - updated geojson and names index

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

5ee3b8c2 - updated pleiades wikidata

Export Updates 2026-02-11:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

23 updated places.

1. Downloads: https://pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

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

"main" branch:

e736927f - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
86efee75 - updated gis package
08ec8bbe - updated data quality
09e9996b - updated bibliography
4241d23b - updated indexes
917d6845 - updated sidebar

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

c5a3abf9 - updated geojson and names index

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

2fb56db0 - updated pleiades wikidata