Ostudizum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Chiara Palladino

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott

Last modified Sep 10, 2026 04:43 PM — History

City in Thrace located on the road between Hadrianopolis and Byzantium, attested in the Antonine Itinerary.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/22611669

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
41.5493038, 26.8205643

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of Havsa (Χάβσα), Turkey (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Ostudizo (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)

Ostudizum makes connections with:

None

Ostudizum receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

References:

Evidence:

ItAnt (Cuntz) 137.4

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Possibly to be identified with Hostino or Hostizo in Tabula Peutingeriana. Löhberg locates it near the city of Havsa in Turkey.

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Suggested citation:
Chiara Palladino, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Ostudizum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/22611669> [accessed: 08 October 2026]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/22611669 |title=Places: 22611669 (Ostudizum) |author=Palladino, C. |accessdate=October 8, 2026 3:23 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}