Gulf of Saint Eufemia
a Pleiades
place
resource
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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History
A number of ancient names were used to identify the modern Gulf of Saint Euphemia off the west Calabrian coast of Italy: "Vibonensis sinus", "Hipponiates kolpos", and "Terinaeus sinus" (as well as its Greek equivalent "Terinaios kolpos"). A passage in Aristotle's Politics uses the unrelated Greek name "Lametikos Kolpos" for the same gulf, or at least its northern extent near the mouth of the ancient Lametus (modern Amato) river. The BAtlas treated this name as separate from the others in labeling the map, and the distinction has been maintained in the Pleiades gazetteer by using two separate (but connected) place resources.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452489
38.8531393, 16.0729713
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Golfo di Sant'Eufemia (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ἱππωνιάτης κόλπος (Hipponiates kolpos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Terinaeus sinus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Τεριναῖος κόλπος (Terinaios kolpos: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - 330 BC)
- sinus Vibonensis (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Golfo di Sant’Eufemia (Italian, modern)
- Gulf of Saint Euphemia (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
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- Vibonensis Sinus (Latin, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Gulf of Saint Eufemia related Lametikos Kolpos (unspecified date range)
- Taurianos Skopelos part of (physical/topographic) Gulf of Saint Eufemia (unspecified date range)
water, open, bay
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 46 C4 Vibonensis Sinus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gulf of S. Eufemia
I.E.M. Edlund Berry, A.M. Small, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gulf of Saint Eufemia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/452489> [accessed: 09 December 2025]
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