Minius (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.W. Haley Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Minius fl. (modern Minho River) is a river of Galicia in the Iberian peninsula. Its ancient name likely derives from minius, the Latin term for cinnabar, and thus its name is, essentially, 'red river'.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236544
41.95665905, -8.75447955
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of mouth of Minius fl. (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
- OSM location of course of Minius fl. (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Βαῖνις (Baínis: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Minho River (English, modern)
- Minius (Latin, 30 BC - AD 640)
- Río Miño (Spanish, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Minius (river) flows into Atlanticus Oceanus (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
- Evidence:
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 24 C2 Minius fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Minho/Miño POR/SPN
E.W. Haley, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Minius (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/236544> [accessed: 24 April 2024]
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