Tiran Island
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 12, 2025 04:04 PM
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Tiran (Arabic: جزيرة تيران Jazīrat Tīrān) is an island located in the Straits of Tiran, which separate the Red Sea from the Gulf of Aqaba.
500 km
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/594456491
27.9514799691, 34.5536699371
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Tiran Island (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- Representative Locations:
- location of Tiran Island (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
- None
- Tiran Island connection Aelaniticus Sinus (unspecified date range)
- Tiran Island connection Arabicus Sinus/Erythr(ae)um/Rubrum Mare (unspecified date range)
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island
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Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Tiran Island: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/594456491> [accessed: 28 March 2025]
{{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/594456491 |title=Places: 594456491 (Tiran Island) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=March 28, 2025 8:41 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}
