Tavia (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Loseby, R. Häussler Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Loseby, R. Häussler Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 12, 2025 09:44 AM
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A river flowing from Alpes Maritimae and emptying into the Ligusticum Mare near Costa Bellene.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157935
43.949222725, 7.8003437758
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Torrente Argentina (river) (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Fiumara di Taggia (Italian, modern)
- Tavia (unspecified date range)
- Torrente Argentina (Italian, modern)
- Tavia (river) flows into Ligusticum Mare (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 16 E2 Tavia fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Taggia ITL
S. Loseby, R. Häussler, R. Talbert, Stefano Costa, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tavia (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/157935> [accessed: 17 June 2025]
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Rivers in Britain now called Taw, Tavy, Teign, Teifi, Teviot, Tay, etc all appear to come from an Indo-European name that meant 'melt water' as explained at http://www.romaneranames.uk/t/tava.htm