Tingi
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Euzennat
Creators: M. Euzennat
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, Ingrid Luo
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Last modified
May 13, 2025 11:36 AM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736
35.787546, -5.8102335
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 15187 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
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- Thymiaterion (Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
- Tingi (330 BC - AD 640)
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- Tingitani (Latin, 550 BC - 30 BC)
- None
- Tomb of Antaios (Libya) located near Tingi (unspecified date range)
settlement, port
- Evidence:
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- Related:
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.
M. Euzennat, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Scott Smith, Greta Hawes, and Ingrid Luo, 'Tingi: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/275736> [accessed: 23 June 2025]
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