Actium Pr.
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: W.M. Murray Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 12, 2020 11:49 AM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/530772
38.923568, 20.749775
- Location of the Actium promontory (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Actium Pr. (750 BC - AD 640)
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- Actium connection Actium Pr. (unspecified date range)
cape, promontory
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 54 C4 Actium Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Akra Akri
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: 13 April 2021]
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