Phoinikous Limen
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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May 25, 2023 04:34 PM
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History
An anchorage, harbor, and/or coastal station on the east-southeast coast of Sicily that is mentioned in ancient sources. It may have been located in the area where the ruins of the 18th century Tonnara di Vendicari now stand or somewhere else in the bay behind and south of it to the island of Vendicari.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462426
36.7973424065, 15.1021245361
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Isola di Vendicari (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Less than certain: OSM location of Tonnara di Vendicari (AD 1800 - AD 1899) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Phoinikous Limen (Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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settlement, anchorage, island, port, bay
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G5 Phoinikous Limen?
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Vendicari
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Phoinikous Limen: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462426> [accessed: 11 March 2025]
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