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Costa Bellene

a Pleiades name resource

Creators: Stefano Costa

Contributors: Tom Elliott

Last modified Jan 16, 2014 05:35 PM — History

The name recorded in the Tabula Peutingeriana.

Romanized Name(s):
Costa Bellene

Name as attested:

Costa Bellene

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:
Less certain

Temporal attestations:

References:

Evidence:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

The name Costa Bellene may not be related to balena ("whale") but to Bellenus, allegedly a pre-Roman Ligurian divinity.