Kozynthion Akra
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.J. Mattingly Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Aug 03, 2022 04:09 PM
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History
A small promontory on the modern Libyan coast of the Gulf of Sidra on and around which the Brega Seaport complex (Marsa Brega/Marsā al Burayqah) now stands.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/363981
30.416147, 19.575631
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Imagery location of promontory (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- Kozynthion Akra (330 BC - AD 300)
- Zozynthion (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Marsa Brega (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- مرسى البريقة (Marsā al Burayqah: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- None
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None
cape, promontory
- See Further:
- See Also:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 37 E2 Kozynthion Akra
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Marsa Brega
D.J. Mattingly, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Kozynthion Akra: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/363981> [accessed: 28 April 2025]
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