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Icosium

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: T.W. Potter

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

Last modified Mar 15, 2014 03:22 PM — History

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

Icosium (modern Algiers) was a Punic and, later, Roman settlement in coastal north Africa. Legend holds that 20 of Herakles' companions founded the original town.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295276

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.7689125, 3.0532175

Locations:

DARMC location 12849 (550 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Icosium (550 BC - AD 640)
الجزائر (al-Jazā’ir: Arabic, modern)

Icosium makes connections with:

None

Icosium receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 30 F3 Icosium

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Algiers

Alternate representations:
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Suggested citation:
T.W. Potter, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Icosium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2014 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295276> [accessed: 21 July 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295276 |title=Places: 295276 (Icosium) |author=Potter, T. |accessdate=July 21, 2018 4:10 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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