Nida (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 22, 2025 10:34 AM
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History
The modern La Nied river, a tributary of the Saar, which runs through parts of modern France and Germany.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/109206
49.2925120106, 6.54031220756
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of modern La Nied (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Nida (river) flows into Saravus (river) (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 11 G3 Nida fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory supplies "Nidda" (a river in the vicinity of Frankfurt) as the modern name, but the map label "Nida" is clearly associated with La Nied.
C. Haselgrove, J. Kunow, Jeffrey Becker, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Maxime Guénette, 'Nida (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/109206> [accessed: 27 March 2025]
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A common river name in Roman times: see https://www.romaneranames.uk/essays/nida.pdf