Cotinussa (island)
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place
resource
Creators: Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
A long, narrow island in antiquity, paralleling a section of the southwest Iberian coast, partly sheltering the ancient Oleastrum lacus. A sanctuary of Herakles was located at its southern end. The ancient city of Gades (Cádiz) occupied a smaller island immediately to the northwest of Cotinussa.
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- Aphrodisias/Erythea/Iunonis (island) located near Cotinussa (island) (30 BC - AD 300)
- Herakleion located on Cotinussa (island) (30 BC - AD 300)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 26 D5 Cotinussa Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: largest of Gades Iss.
Jr., F.H. Stanley, R.C. Knapp, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Cotinussa (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/256138> [accessed: 22 June 2025]
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