Chardaleon
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: D.T. Potts Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 17, 2025 09:29 PM
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History
A region on the Red Sea coast of the Arabian peninsula, mentioned in a north-to-south list of toponyms by Pliny the Elder, and by other Greco-Roman sources. BAtlas identified it as lying in the area of the modern al-Lith governorate in Saudi Arabia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39328
20.7116358975, 40.5272899434
- Representative Locations:
- BAtlas Label Location (30 BC - AD 300) accuracy: +/- 9310 meters.
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- Cardalena (30 BC - AD 300)
- Cardaleon (30 BC - AD 300)
- regio Chardaleon (Chardaleon: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- الليث (al-Lith: Arabic, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 B1 Chardaleon
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: area around al-Lith SAU
D.T. Potts, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Chardaleon: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/39328> [accessed: 14 February 2026]
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