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Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier
Contributors: R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Chris de Lisle, jfu, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa
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Last modified Jul 08, 2024 09:13 PM History
Nicephorium (modern ar-Raqqa in Syria) was an ancient settlement on the river Euphrates in Syria. It may be identical with Callinicum, which was renamed Leontopolis in the mid-fifth century CE.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668318

35.9500183333, 39.0569913333

settlement

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 68 G2 Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Raqqa


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J.P. Brown, P.-L. Gatier, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Chris de Lisle, jfu, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/668318> [accessed: 07 October 2024]

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