Nestis (river)
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).
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Mar 20, 2023 04:39 PM
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History
An ancient river in the general vicinity of Akragas on the island of Sicily, the Nestis is possibly to be identified with the modern Torrente Iacono.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462390
37.3422927417, 13.7155928852
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM Location of modern Torrente Iacono (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Nestis (550 BC - 30 BC)
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river, drainage
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 D4 Nestis? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Iacono
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Nestis (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462390> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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