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Actium Pr.

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: W.M. Murray

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

Last modified Jan 12, 2020 11:49 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=0, dare:feature=natural

A promontory on the southern side of the entrance to the Ambracian Gulf from the Ionian Sea. It was in the sea off this promontory in 31BC that M. Antonius suffered a famous naval defeat at the hands of Octavian.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530772

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
38.923568, 20.749775

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- Location of the Actium promontory (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Actium Pr. (750 BC - AD 640)

Actium Pr. makes connections with:

None

Actium Pr. receives connections from:

Actium connection Actium Pr. (unspecified date range)

Place type:
cape, promontory

References:

Evidence:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C4 Actium Pr.

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Akra Akri

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Suggested citation:
W.M. Murray, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Actium Pr.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530772> [accessed: 02 February 2023]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530772 |title=Places: 530772 (Actium Pr.) |author=Murray, W. |accessdate=February 2, 2023 10:56 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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Actium Pr.