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Nemausus

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: S. Loseby

Contributors: DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 13, 2017 11:32 AM — History

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

Nemausus (modern Nîmes) was the ancient capital of the Volcae Arecomici and later a Roman colony.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148142

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
43.8431497874, 4.3541755708

Locations:

OSM location of modern Nîmes (modern)

Names:

Νεμαύσος (Nemausos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
Nemausus (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
Nîmes (modern)

Nemausus makes connections with:

Nemausus connection Volcae Arecomici (unspecified date range)

Nemausus receives connections from:

Nîmes aqueduct connection Nemausus (unspecified date range)
Porte de France, Nemausus connection Nemausus (unspecified date range)

Place type:
urban area, settlement, settlement-modern, fort, tower

References:

Evidence:

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See Also:

RFO 171

Related:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 15 C2 Nemausus

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nîmes

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
S. Loseby, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Ryan Horne, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Nemausus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148142> [accessed: 25 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/148142 |title=Places: 148142 (Nemausus) |author=Loseby, S. |accessdate=April 25, 2018 6:28 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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