Gallicum/Taphros Fretum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S.L. Dyson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S.L. Dyson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 09, 2023 03:34 PM
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History
The modern Straits of Bonifacio separates the Tyrrhenian Sea from the western Mediterranean Sea. The straits measure 11 km (6.8 miles) in width.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471933
41.3084659, 9.2608628
- Representative Locations:
- Strait of Bonifacio (modern)
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- Bocche di Bonifacio (Italian, AD 2000 - AD 2099)
- Gallicum (unspecified date range)
- fretum Taphros (Taphros Fretum: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- None
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None
water, open
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 D3 Gallicum/Taphros Fretum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Straits of Bonifacio
S.L. Dyson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Gallicum/Taphros Fretum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/471933> [accessed: 08 February 2023]
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