Ouiriballon Akron
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
May 02, 2023 09:22 AM
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History
A promontory of northwest Corsica that extends westward and is capped by the Île de Gargalo. It is bounded on the south by the Golfe de Girolata and on the north by the Golfe d'Elbo. Today, the entire promontory is set aside as the Réserve Naturelle de Scandola (a UNESCO Natural World Heritage Site).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472105
42.3710947845, 8.54962779129
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ouiriballon Akron (330 BC - AD 300)
- Ouiriballon Akron connection Corsica/Kyrnos (island) (unspecified date range)
- Ouiriballon Akron connection Sardoum Mare (unspecified date range)
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cape, promontory
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 48 C2 Ouiriballon Akron
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Capa Ribellata
S.L. Dyson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Ouiriballon Akron: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/472105> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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