Phrourion?/Boosoura? (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: D. Rupp Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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History
Ancient sources separately provide the names Phrourion and Boosoura for capes on the southern coast of Cyprus. Modern scholars tentatively identify both names with modern Cape Aspros/Aspron.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707612
34.6415598, 32.7166273
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Cape Aspron (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Βοόσουρα (Boosoura: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Less than certain: Φρούριον ἄκρον (Phrourion akron: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
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cape, promontory
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 72 B3 Phrourion?/Boosoura? Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Cape Aspros
D. Rupp, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Phrourion?/Boosoura? (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/707612> [accessed: 05 October 2024]
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