Aegimoeroe (islands)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
An island group located off Cape Bon, Tunisia. Pliny the Elder knew of the "duae Aegimoeroe", presumably referring to Ile Zembra and Ile Zembretta.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/314854
37.1164528439, 10.8395507149
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location: Zembra (island) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location: Zembretta (island) (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Aegimoeroe (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Αἰγίμουρος (Aigimouros: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Zembra Island (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Zembretta Island (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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archipelago, island group, island
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 32 G2 Aegimoeroe Inss.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Iles de Zembra
R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Aegimoeroe (islands): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/314854> [accessed: 21 April 2025]
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