Sava fl./Nasabath fl.
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).
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Apr 28, 2025 08:46 PM
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History
An ancient river of Mauretania. Gsell (whence BAtlas) argues that the name Nasabath (provided by Ptolemy) corresponds to the modern Oued Soummam, which empties into the Mediterranean just south of the ancient site of Saldae (modern Béjaïa, Algeria). Other contemporary testimony makes clear this river also bore the name Sava and that this name extended upstream to include the modern Oued Bou Sellam, one of the two major tributaries (together with the Oued Sahel = ancient Phoimios) of the Oued Soummam.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305148
36.4733583654, 4.78990464928
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Oued Bou-Sellam (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location: modern Oued Soummam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM Location: modern Oued Boussellam (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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river, drainage
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 31 B3 Sava fl./Nasabath fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Oued bou Sellam/Oued Summam
E.W.B. Fentress, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sava fl./Nasabath fl.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/305148> [accessed: 16 June 2025]
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