Surt
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Creators: Zachary Rosalinsky
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 26, 2022 09:51 PM
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History
Medieval Arab settlement, located 55km east of modern Sirte, Libya. Roman-period spolia in the medieval settlement, as well as evidence from the Roman itineraries, place the ancient site of Charax/(I)Scina here or somewhere in the vicinity.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/159615010
31.1304365201, 17.1025782953
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Surt (30 BC - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location of medieval ruins (AD 640 - AD 1453) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Mdayna en Syrtique (French, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Medina Sultan (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Sort (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Surt located near Euphranta/Macomades (30 BC - AD 1453)
- Surt located on Internum Mare (30 BC - AD 1453)
- Charax/(I)Scina located near Surt (unspecified date range)
settlement (fortified), settlement
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Pleiades
Zachary Rosalinsky, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Surt: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/159615010> [accessed: 25 April 2024]
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