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Semien Mountains

a Pleiades place resource

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A mountain range of northern Ethiopia first mentioned in the Monumentum Adulitanum and now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336410435

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
13.1942647333, 38.3027306333

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Semien Mountains (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Ras Dashen (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- OSM location of Ras Bwahit (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- ስሜን (Semen: Geez, Amharic Ethiopian, modern)
- Simēn (Simen: English, modern)

Semien Mountains makes connections with:

None

Semien Mountains receives connections from:

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Place type:
mountain

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See Also:

Wikipedia (English) Monumentum Adulitanum

Initial Provenance:
Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Semien Mountains: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336410435> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/336410435 |title=Places: 336410435 (Semien Mountains) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 1:56 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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