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Bani Walid

a Pleiades place resource

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A modern city in Libya's Misratah province on the western edge of which Roman milestones and funerary inscriptions have been found removed from their original positions as part of modern agricultural activity. The local museum holds artistic and architectural artifacts from a number of nearby locations.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198812462

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.7584309, 14.0146898

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Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of Bani Walid (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- بني وليد (Bani Walid: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)

Bani Walid makes connections with:

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Bani Walid receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement-modern

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Wikidata Bani Walid (Q244230)

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Tom Elliott, 'Bani Walid: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198812462> [accessed: 26 March 2025]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/198812462 |title=Places: 198812462 (Bani Walid) |author=Elliott, T. |accessdate=March 26, 2025 4:14 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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