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Tingi

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Euzennat
Contributors: Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ingrid Luo, Enes Yılandiloğlu
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Last modified Mar 31, 2026 10:11 PM — History
Tingi (modern Tangier) began as a Carthaginian colony of the early fifth century BCE. A commercial center, Tingi came under the Roman sphere in the first century BCE, initially as a free city but later as the site of a colony (Colonia Julia) under Claudius and the capital of Mauritania Tingitana.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736

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    • Thymiaterion (Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
    • Tingi (330 BC - AD 640)
    • Ṭanca (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
    • Ṭancaba (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1300 - AD 1923)
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settlement, port

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 28 C2 Tingi

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tangier. There are discrepant readings of the origins of the ancient name Tingis. Some suggest a Berber origin, while some Greek sources claimed that the name derived from that of a daughter of the Titan Atlas.


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M. Euzennat, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ingrid Luo, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Tingi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736> [accessed: 20 July 2026] 

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