Borysthenes (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: David Braund Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 11, 2025 08:10 PM
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History
The Dnieper River.
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226544
51.3415715868, 32.7260547688
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Dnieper River (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- location of mouth of Borysthenes fl. (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- location of source of Borysthenes fl. (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- flumen Borysthenes (Borysthenes: Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
- Βορυσθένης (Borysthénēs: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Dnieper (English, modern)
- None
- Acesinus? (river) flows into Borysthenes (river) (unspecified date range)
- Chervony Mayak located on Borysthenes (river) (unspecified date range)
- Krasnyĭ mai͡ak located on Borysthenes (river) (330 BC - AD 300)
- Trakhtemyrivsʹke horodyshche located on Borysthenes (river) (750 BC - 550 BC)
river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 23 F2 Borysthenes fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dnieper
David Braund, Gabriel Mckee, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Diane Braund, and Tom Elliott, 'Borysthenes (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/226544> [accessed: 25 March 2025]
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