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Pontus Euxinus

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: Sean Gillies

Contributors: Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

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Romanized Name(s):
Pontus Euxinus

Name as attested:

Pontus Euxinus

Language:
Latin

Name type:
geographic name

Accuracy of transcription:
accurate

Level of transcription completeness:
complete

Level of certainty in association between name and the place:
Certain

Temporal attestations:

Archaic (Greco-Roman; 750-550 BCE/BC) (confident)
Classical (Greco-Roman; 550 BC-330 BC) (confident)
Hellenistic Greek, Roman Republic (330 BC-30 BC) (confident)
Roman, early Empire (30 BC-AD 300) (confident)
Late Antique (AD 300-AD 640) (confident)

References:

Evidence:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 1 J2 Pontus Euxinus

Details: