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Himera

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: R.J.A. Wilson

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Jonathan Prag, R. Talbert, Valeria Vitale, Johan Åhlfeldt

Last modified Jun 07, 2018 07:13 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

A colony on the north shore of Sicily founded in 649/8 BC by the Myletidai.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462244

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.970797, 13.822496

Locations:

DARE Location (750 BC - 330 BC)

Names:

Ἱμέρα (Himera: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - 330 BC)
Himera (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
Imera (Italian, modern)

Himera makes connections with:

Himera connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)

Himera receives connections from:

Temenos of Athena connection Himera (unspecified date range)
Temple of Victory connection Himera (unspecified date range)

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 D3 Himera

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Himera

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
R.J.A. Wilson, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Jonathan Prag, R. Talbert, Valeria Vitale, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Himera: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462244> [accessed: 23 September 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462244 |title=Places: 462244 (Himera) |author=Wilson, R. |accessdate=September 23, 2018 5:11 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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