Lounarion Akron
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Mar 28, 2014 12:12 PM
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History
An ancient promontory listed in Ptolemy's Geography. Thought to be the modern Cap Begur on the so-called Costa Brava: a section of the Mediterranean coast of modern Spain (Catalunya).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246474
41.9501869, 3.2318419
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location (modern)
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- Cap Begur (Spanish, modern)
- Λουνάριον ἄκρον (Lounarion Akron: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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cape, promontory
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 25 I4 Lounarion Akron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cap Begur
H.S. Sivan, S.J. Keay, R.W. Mathisen, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Lounarion Akron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2014 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/246474> [accessed: 30 January 2023]
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