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Tharros

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: S.L. Dyson

Contributors: Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, R. Talbert

Last modified Jun 07, 2018 02:56 PM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BC it continued as a major town in Roman times.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
39.879432, 8.440249

Locations:

DARMC location 253 (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Τάῤῥας (Tarras: Ancient Greek, unspecified date range)
Tharros (750 BC - AD 640)

Tharros makes connections with:

Tharros connection Sardinia (island) (unspecified date range)

Tharros receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 A3 Tharros

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: S. Giovanni di Sinis

Smith 1857 (2.1135) emphasizes that the site is mentioned by Ptolemy as Tarrae or Tarras and also in the Antonine Itineraries, which place it 12 miles from Othoca.

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Suggested citation:
S.L. Dyson, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, and R. Talbert, 'Tharros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032> [accessed: 07 April 2020]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472032 |title=Places: 472032 (Tharros) |author=Dyson, S. |accessdate=April 7, 2020 4:36 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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