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Massalia/Massilia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: S. Loseby

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt

Last modified Jun 07, 2018 03:46 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

Massalia/Massilia (modern Marseille) was founded by Phocaean Greeks ca. 600 BC as a trading outpost.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148127

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
43.296854, 5.382499

Locations:

DARMC location 6735 (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Marseille (modern)
Massalia (750 BC - AD 300)
Μασσαλία (Massalía: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
Massilia (330 BC - AD 640)

Massalia/Massilia makes connections with:

None

Massalia/Massilia receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

Evidence:

TP 1B5 (Talbert 840)

See Further:

See Also:

RFO 176

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 15 E3 Massalia/Massilia

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Marseille

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
S. Loseby, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Pierre Motylewicz, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Massalia/Massilia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148127> [accessed: 19 July 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148127 |title=Places: 148127 (Massalia/Massilia) |author=Loseby, S. |accessdate=July 19, 2018 9:17 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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