Oescus (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.G. Poulter Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.G. Poulter Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jan 30, 2015 03:13 PM
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History
The Oescus river (modern Iskar) is a river of Bulgaria and tributary of the Danube.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216908
42.5159742, 23.5370147
- Representative Locations:
- location of Iskar river (modern)
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- Oescus (30 BC - AD 640)
- Oescus (river) connection Danuvius/Istros/Hister (river) (unspecified date range)
- Oescus connection Oescus (river) (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 22 B5 Oescus fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: river
A.G. Poulter, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Oescus (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2015 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/216908> [accessed: 22 May 2022]
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