Britannia/Albion (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R. Warner, A. Bursche
Creators: R. Warner, A. Bursche
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Nov 11, 2025 03:19 PM
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History
The island of Great Britain is located to the northwest of continental Europe and is the ninth largest island in the world.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/20419
53.826, -2.422
- Representative Locations:
- location of Britannia/Albion (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Albion (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Britannia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Briṭāniyye (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Great Britain (English, unspecified date range)
- Britannia/Albion (island) connection Britannicum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Britannia/Albion (island) connection Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Britannia/Albion (island) connection Hyperboreios/Douekaledonios Okeanos (unspecified date range)
- Britannia/Albion (island) connection Iouernikos Okeanos (unspecified date range)
- Londinium/Augusta connection Britannia/Albion (island) (unspecified date range)
island
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 2 C2 Britannia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Great Britain
R. Warner, A. Bursche, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Britannia/Albion (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/20419> [accessed: 16 January 2026]
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