Astacenus/Olbianus Sinus
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: C. Foss Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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The Gulf of İzmit (Turkish: İzmit Körfezi) is also known as Izmit Bay. This body of water is a bay located at the easternmost edge of the Sea of Marmara.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511168
40.75, 29.58333
- Representative Locations:
- Geonames location of Astacenus/Olbianus Sinus (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Astacenus sinus (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ἀστακηνὸς κόλπος (Astakenos kolpos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Olbianus Sinus (unspecified date range)
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water, open
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 52 F3 Astacenus/Olbianus Sinus
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: İzmit Körfezi
C. Foss, Sean Gillies, Perry Scalfano, R. Talbert, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Astacenus/Olbianus Sinus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/511168> [accessed: 30 January 2025]
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