Morsott
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
Jul 12, 2023 05:28 PM
The modern Algerian settlement of Morsott is possibly to be identified with ancient Vasampus, attested in the Peutinger map.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324847
35.6717654, 8.0102728
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Morsott (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Mova next place in route Morsott (unspecified date range)
settlement, settlement-modern
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 33 B1 Vasampus?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Morsot ALG
R.B. Hitchner, DARMC, R. Talbert, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Morsott: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/324847> [accessed: 14 July 2025]
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