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Mokha

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Dhruvan Nair

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Mar 30, 2024 04:17 PM — History

Mokha, a port city on the Red Sea, is a key trading center that reaches its peak in the seventeenth century. It succeeds the ancient Mouza Emporion.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122069607

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
13.3098245884, 43.2338707285

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Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Mokha Port (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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None

Mokha makes connections with:

Mokha succeeds Mouza Emporion (unspecified date range)

Mokha receives connections from:

Uncertain: Laupas same as Mokha (unspecified date range)

Place type:
port

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Dhruvan Nair, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Mokha: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122069607> [accessed: 22 November 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/122069607 |title=Places: 122069607 (Mokha) |author=Nair, D. |accessdate=November 22, 2024 10:33 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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