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Tingi

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: M. Euzennat

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

Last modified Feb 15, 2013 01:07 PM — History

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

Tingi (modern Tangier) began as a Carthaginian colony of the early 5th century BC. A commercial center, Tingi came under the Roman sphere in the first century BC, initially as a free city but later as the site of a colony (Colonia Julia) under Claudius and the capital of Mauritania Tingitana.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
35.787546, -5.8102335

Locations:

DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640)
DARMC location 15187 (550 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Thymiaterion (unspecified date range)
Tingi (330 BC - AD 640)
Tingitani (550 BC - 30 BC)

Tingi makes connections with:

None

Tingi receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, port

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 28 C2 Tingi

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tangier

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Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
M. Euzennat, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tingi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736> [accessed: 22 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736 |title=Places: 275736 (Tingi) |author=Euzennat, M. |accessdate=April 22, 2018 6:55 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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