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Saldae

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: E.W.B. Fentress

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

Last modified Jan 22, 2016 11:01 AM — History

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

Founded by Numidian Berbers, the settlement of Saldae (modern Béjaïa, Algeria) was a minor port during phases of Carthaginian and Roman occupation. The Roman emperor Vespasian established a veteran colony there, at a time when Saldae was part of the province of Mauretania Caesariensis.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305142

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
36.740851, 5.057965

Locations:

DARMC location 14571 (330 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Saldae (330 BC - AD 640)

Saldae makes connections with:

Saldae connection Mauretania Caesariensis (unspecified date range)

Saldae receives connections from:

Unnamed aqueduct supplying Saldae connection Saldae (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement, port

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Evidence:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 C3 Saldae

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Béjaia

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Suggested citation:
E.W.B. Fentress, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Saldae: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305142> [accessed: 22 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305142 |title=Places: 305142 (Saldae) |author=Fentress, E. |accessdate=April 22, 2018 1:12 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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