Oude Rijn
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).
Last modified
Apr 20, 2025 05:41 PM
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History
The "Old Rhine" is now a branch of the Rhine River delta in the Dutch provinces of Utrecht and South Holland. In antiquity, this was a part of the main River Rhine, which forked at the Betuwe into a northern branch, the Rhine, and a southern branch, the Waal.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633625630
52.1232320945, 4.67459512985
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Oude Rijn (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Oude Rijn flows into Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
- Oude Rijn part of (physical/topographic) Rhenus (river) (unspecified date range)
- Lugdunum located on Oude Rijn (unspecified date range)
- Praetorium Agrippinae located on Oude Rijn (unspecified date range)
river, drainage
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Jeffrey Becker, 'Oude Rijn: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/633625630> [accessed: 13 February 2026]
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