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Emporiae

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt

Last modified Jun 07, 2018 04:45 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

A major economic center in the Iberian peninsula, Emporiae (modern Empúries) had indigenous origins but would be the site of a large Greek colonial city.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246382

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
42.13342, 3.1145495

Locations:

DARMC location 12342 (750 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Emporiae (750 BC - AD 640)
Ἐμποριτῶν (Emporion: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 640)

Emporiae makes connections with:

None

Emporiae receives connections from:

Place type:
settlement, port

References:

Evidence:

Strabo 3.4.8

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 25 I3 Emporiae

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Empúries

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Suggested citation:
H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Emporiae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246382> [accessed: 24 August 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246382 |title=Places: 246382 (Emporiae) |author=Sivan, H., S. Keay, R. Mathisen |accessdate=August 24, 2019 5:20 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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