Cercina (island)
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).
Creators: R.B. Hitchner Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Aug 25, 2021 11:19 AM
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History
A group of islands lying off the east coast of Tunisia in the Gulf of Gabès. In Roman antiquity the islands were a place of exile.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324690
34.7865653, 11.2342661
- Representative Locations:
- location of Cercina Ins. (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Île Chergui (Ile Chergui: French, modern)
- Κέρκιννα (Kerkinna: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- insula Cercina (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Cercina connection Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement part of (physical/topographic) Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
- Unnamed settlement located on Cercina (island) (unspecified date range)
island
- Evidence:
- See Further:
- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 33 H3 Cercina Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Grand Kerkenna
R.B. Hitchner, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Cercina (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324690> [accessed: 07 October 2024]
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