Alburnus Maior

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J.J. Wilkes

Contributors: Richard Talbert, Tom Elliott

Last modified Jun 05, 2023 11:44 PM — History

tags: UWHS

A settlement and gold mining complex at modern Roşia Montană in Romania. The Roșia Montană Mining Landscape was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 2021.

500 km

Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281718504

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
46.3062526, 23.1309849

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of modern Roșia Montană (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Alburnus Maior (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
Associated Modern Names:
- Roșia Montană (Romanian, AD 1900 - AD 2099)

Alburnus Maior makes connections with:

None

Alburnus Maior receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern, mine

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
BAtlas 21 F3 Alburnus Maior

Details:

Barrington Atlas Directory: Roşia Montană ROM

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
J.J. Wilkes, Richard Talbert, and Tom Elliott, 'Alburnus Maior: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281718504> [accessed: 11 March 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/281718504 |title=Places: 281718504 (Alburnus Maior) |author=Wilkes, J. |accessdate=March 11, 2025 10:09 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}