Locri

I am confused about the location of this 'Locri' in North-Africa on the Google map. There is Locri, apparently not in Pleiades, a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy, the old Epizephyrian Locris (from Greek Επιζεφύριοι Λοκροί - epi-Zephyros, "under the West Wind")[2] founded about 680 BC on the Italian shore of the Ionian Sea, near modern Capo Zefirio, by the Locrians. See Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locri

hi, and thanks for commenting on Pleiades. The disambiguation of place names in the ancient world is one of the biggest challenges in ancient world geography. The well-known Locri about which you ask does appear in Pleiades, here http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452369 "Lokroi Epizephyrioi" (BAtlas 46 D5). The Locri in North Africa appears as part of map 35 E2 from the Barrington Atlas (in the Map-by-Map Directory you will find it in 1.533). This is a toponym attested for Tripolitana during the Hellenistic and Roman periods; the modern geographic locality is Ras Sidi Giogghig, which would be in modern day Libya. If you wanted to work on editing http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452369, that would certainly be welcome. You can do this by checking out a 'working copy', making edits, and submitting for review. You'd be welcome to add the Wikipedia link there, as well as recommending 'Locri' as a modern name under 'names'. Thanks for helping us work to refine Pleiades.