Salsum (river)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.W. Potter Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: T.W. Potter Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 19, 2022 10:46 AM
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History
The ancient Salsum river has been identified with the modern وادي المالح (Oued Melah) in Algeria's Aïn Témouchent province. It debouches into the Mediterranean at the modern beach resort area of Shati Tariqa.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/285515
35.4418489296, -1.22104192912
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM Location of وادي المالح (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of وادي المالح (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- flumen Salsum (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Rio Salado (Spanish, AD 1800 - AD 1999)
- وادي المالح (Wadi Al-Maleh: Arabic, AD 1900 - AD 2099)
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river, drainage
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 29 D1 Salsum fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Oued Mélah/Rio Salado
T.W. Potter, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Salsum (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/285515> [accessed: 19 April 2024]
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