Siculum Fretum
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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A strait separating the eastern tip of Sicily and the southern tip of Calabria in the south of Italy.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462494
38.260268, 15.660384
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 640)
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- Siculum Fretum (Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Sikelikos Porthmos (330 BC - AD 640)
- Strait of Messina (English, modern)
- Stretto di Messina (Stretto di Messina: Italian, modern)
- None
- Charybdis connection Siculum Fretum (unspecified date range)
water, open
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 H2 Siculum Fretum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Straits of Messina
R.J.A. Wilson, R. Talbert, Gabriel Mckee, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Siculum Fretum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462494> [accessed: 26 April 2024]
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