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Lilybaeum

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: R.J.A. Wilson

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, 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

Lilybaeum (modern Marsala) is located at the extreme westernmost point of Sicily. Lilybaeum was a Punic settlement that was conquered by the Romans in 241 B.C.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462281

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.80113425, 12.4308155

Locations:

DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)
OSM location of archaeological area (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Lilibeo (Italian, modern)
Lilybaeum (Latin, 750 BC - AD 640)
Λιλύβαιον (Lilybaion: Ancient Greek, 750 BC - AD 300)
Lilybeum (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
Marsala (Italian, modern)

Lilybaeum makes connections with:

Lilybaeum connection Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)

Lilybaeum receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

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Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 A3 Lilybaeum

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Marsala

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Suggested citation:
R.J.A. Wilson, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Jonathan Prag, R. Talbert, Valeria Vitale, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Lilybaeum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462281> [accessed: 19 August 2019]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462281 |title=Places: 462281 (Lilybaeum) |author=Wilson, R. |accessdate=August 19, 2019 4:25 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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