Metagonium (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: E.W.B. Fentress Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Metagonium Promontorium may be the modern-day Cap Bougaroûn. It is a cape that forms the western end of the Gulf of Skikda. It lies opposite the Cap de Fer and is the northernmost point of Algeria.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305108
37.0875111, 6.4674778
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Cap Bougaroun (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Metagonium Pr. (30 BC - AD 300)
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- رأس بوقارون (Ras Bougaroun: Algerian Arabic, modern)
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cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 F2 Metagonium Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cap Bougaroun. Some uncertainty remains about the precise identification and location of Metagonium. Strabo (17.3.9) mentions a cape called Treton, which D. Roller (2017) suggests may be the modern Cape Seba Rous, which has also been correlated with Cap Bougaroûn. The question remains, then, whether Treton and Metagonium are the same place or different places.
E.W.B. Fentress, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Metagonium (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305108> [accessed: 23 May 2025]
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