Almaden

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: María Jesús Redondo

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Nov 11, 2018 10:48 PM — History

tags: cinnabar

A Spanish village located in the south of the province of Ciudad Real that belonged to the kingdom of Alfonso X. Today known as Almadén.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/283784632

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.7742489, -4.832835

Locations:

Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of modern Almadén (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Almaden (Spanish, AD 640 - AD 1453)
- Almadén (Almaden: Spanish, modern)

Almaden makes connections with:

None

Almaden receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement, settlement-modern

References:

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Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

Details:

Cinnabar has been mined at Almadén since Roman antiquity.

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Suggested citation:
María Jesús Redondo, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Almaden: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/283784632> [accessed: 30 April 2025]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/283784632 |title=Places: 283784632 (Almaden) |author=Jesús Redondo, M. |accessdate=April 30, 2025 10:18 am |publisher=Pleiades}}