Liger (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 03, 2023 10:58 AM
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The Loire river is the longest river in France. The river runs a course of 1,012 kilometres (629 miles).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/138420
46.7521438498, 2.1310583829
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of The River Loire (river course) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Liger (river) bounds Aquitania (Roman province) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Liger (river) flows into Atlanticus Oceanus (unspecified date range)
- Liger (river) part of (regional) Gallia (330 BC - 30 BC)
- *Geinum located on Liger (river) (unspecified date range)
- *Ratiatum connection Liger (river) (unspecified date range)
- Cares (river) flows into Liger (river) (unspecified date range)
- Vi(n)genna (river) flows into Liger (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 14 D2 Liger fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Loire
H.S. Sivan, R.W. Mathisen, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Liger (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/138420> [accessed: 27 April 2024]
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An early name of the river through modern Leicester in England may also have been similar to Liger.