Pantelleria (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 29, 2019 11:56 AM
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History
An island in the Strait of Sicily with human occupation dating back at least 35,000 years, Pantelleria has evidence for Bronze Age, Punic, Roman, Medieval, and modern phases. The Romans first acquired the island in 255 B.C. They called it Cossyra.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462168
36.7915233389, 11.9903001131
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Pantelleria (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Cossura (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Cossyra (Latin, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Κόσσουρα (Kossoura: Ancient Greek, 550 BC - AD 640)
- Pantelleria (English, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Isola di Pantelleria (Pantelleria: Italian, modern)
- Pantelleria (island) part of (physical/topographic) Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Cossyra (settlement) part of (physical/topographic) Pantelleria (island) (30 BC - AD 640)
- Mursia part of (physical/topographic) Pantelleria (island) (unspecified date range)
- Sese Grande part of (physical/topographic) Pantelleria (island) (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 inset Cossyra Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Pantelleria
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Valeria Vitale, Jonathan Prag, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Pantelleria (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462168> [accessed: 23 December 2024]
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