Epinesia (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: S. Mitchell Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 19, 2021 12:51 PM
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History
A headland (no modern name?) in Taşucu bay (Mersin province, Turkey), now occupied by a NATO port facility. An Ottoman-era fortification (Liman Kalesi) occupies the high point.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648630
36.2770431448, 33.8362312293
- Representative Locations:
- OSM Location of peninsula coastline (unspecified date range)
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- Epinesia Pr. (30 BC - AD 640)
- None
- Liman Kalesi located on Epinesia (promontory) (unspecified date range)
cape, promontory
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 66 D4 Epinesia Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Boğsak, opposite Nesoulion
S. Mitchell, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Epinesia (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/648630> [accessed: 21 March 2023]
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