Sallentinum/Iapygia
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Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Cape Leuca, known as Sallentinum and Iapygia in ancient sources, is a headland that forms the extreme southeastern point of Italy and separates the Gulf of Tarentum from the Adriatic Sea.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442763
39.796261, 18.368275
- Representative Locations:
- Imagery location of Capo S. Maria di Leuca (modern) accuracy: +/- 5 meters.
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- ἄκρα Ἰαπυγία (Akra Iapygia: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- Cape Leuca (English, modern)
- Capo Santa Maria di Leuca (Capo Santa Maria di Leuca: Italian, modern)
- Iapygia Pr. (unspecified date range)
- Sallentinum promunturium (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- acra Iapygia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
- Sallentini connection Sallentinum/Iapygia (unspecified date range)
cape, promontory
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 45 inset Sallentinum/Iapygia Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Capo S. Maria di Leuca
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Sallentinum/Iapygia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442763> [accessed: 18 April 2024]
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