Zucchabar
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.W. Potter
Creators: T.W. Potter
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
May 11, 2022 12:48 PM
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History
Zucchabar was an ancient city of Mauretania Caesariensis with Punic origins. The modern Algerian community of Miliana lies atop and around the largely unexcavated ancient site. Epigraphic evidence indicates that the Roman emperor Augustus established a veteran colony there.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295374
36.3048605, 2.224974
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 15549 (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Ζουχάββαρι (Zouchábbari: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Zucchabar (330 BC - AD 300)
- Zucchabar connection Mauretania Caesariensis (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 30 D4 Zucchabar
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Miliana
T.W. Potter, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Zucchabar: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/295374> [accessed: 13 September 2024]
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