Oea
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Creators: D.J. Mattingly
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Ingrid Luo, Tom Elliott, Enes Yılandiloğlu
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Last modified
Nov 30, 2025 10:24 AM
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History
Phoenicians established Oea in the seventh century B.C., and it later became a Roman–Berber colony. Modern-day Tripoli, Libya.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344456
32.897586, 13.175266
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 13986 (750 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- None
- Arch of Marcus Aurelius at Tripoli located at Oea (30 BC - AD 300)
- Vax/Villa Repentina next place in route Oea (unspecified date range)
settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 35 F2 Oea
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tripoli
D.J. Mattingly, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Jeffrey Becker, Ingrid Luo, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Oea: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344456> [accessed: 13 December 2025]
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