Portus Veneris
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.V. Harris Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jul 26, 2018 09:25 AM
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History
A Roman maritime community that may derive its name from a local sanctuary of Venus, Portus Veneris served as the base of the Byzantine fleet until it was destroyed in A.D. 643.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403262
44.048291, 9.832829
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 7090 (30 BC - AD 640)
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- Portus Veneris (30 BC - AD 640)
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settlement, port
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 41 B1 Portus Veneris
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Portovenere
W.V. Harris, DARMC, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Portus Veneris: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/403262> [accessed: 20 May 2022]
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