Porta Nigra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 19, 2021 04:06 PM
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History
The so-called "Porta Nigra" is a surviving Roman city gate that dates to ca. A.D. 186-200. It was enlisted as part of the "Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St. Peter and Church of Our Lady in Trier" UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/151157248
49.7596477149, 6.6440258185
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Porta Nigra (30 BC - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Porta Nigra (Latin, modern)
- Porta Nigra located at Col. Augusta Treverorum (30 BC - AD 300)
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gate (of a city), city gate
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, jfu, Charlotte Tupman, and Tom Elliott, 'Porta Nigra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/151157248> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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