Oviedo
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Alex Ayris
Creators: Alex Ayris
Contributors:
Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Sep 04, 2024 08:59 PM
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History
Founded in the eighth century, Oviedo was modeled after Toledo and flourished in the ninth century under Asturian King Alfonso II (791-842). It was at that time that Oviedo became the Asturian capital and an episcopal see. Oviedo remained prominent until the early tenth century.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/475092090
43.3618625, -5.8483581
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of modern Oviedo (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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settlement, settlement-modern
- Evidence:
- See Further:
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- Collins 2012 pp. 51, 52, 71, 75, 76, 78, 79, 81, 105, 107-8, 109-10, 139, 151, 192
- Constable and Zurro 2012 pp 68, 70-71
- Hourihane 2013 s.v. "Oviedo"
- Linehan 1993 pp. 83-4, 84-5, 97, 98, 109, 109n., 111, 112, 115, 174, 190-1, 202, 208, 212, 213, 274, 285, 373
- O'Callaghan 1975 pp. 104, 163, 169, 171, 185, 269, 307, 314
- Sholod 1966 pp. 53, 55, 56, 57n., 72, 129-132, 222
- Wikipedia (English) Oviedo
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Pleiades
Alex Ayris, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Oviedo: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/475092090> [accessed: 21 November 2024]
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