Thapsos
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Creators: R.J.A. Wilson
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 08, 2022 03:03 PM
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History
An ancient settlement located on Sicily's Magnisi peninsula (in the modern administrative municipality of Priolo Gargallo, Siracusa province). The site was inhabited from the Bronze Age through at least the Greek archaic period, with subsequent, periodic military use and construction from the Classical through the modern period.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462511
37.1530740249, 15.2337760886
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 18937 (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Thapsos (750 BC - 330 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Area archeologica di Thapsos (Italian, modern)
- Thapsos (750 BC - 330 BC)
- Thapsos (English, modern)
- Thapsos founded by Megara (750 BC - 550 BC)
- Thapsos located on Sicilia (island) (unspecified date range)
- Thapsos located on Thapsus (promontory) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 47 G4 Thapsos
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: on Magnisi peninsula
R.J.A. Wilson, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Thapsos: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/462511> [accessed: 23 November 2024]
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