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Canopus

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

Contributors: DARMC, Simon Krause-Heiber, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott

Last modified Aug 14, 2017 10:49 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:major=1, dare:feature=major settlement

An ancient Egyptian city of the Nile river delta. Canopus was located in the seventh nome (Menelaites) on the western bank at the mouth of the westernmost branch of the Nile.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727097

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.313404, 30.0580595

Locations:

DARMC location 11891 (750 BC - AD 640)
DARE Location (750 BC - AD 640)

Names:

Canopus (750 BC - AD 640)

Canopus makes connections with:

Canopus connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)
Canopus connection Nilus (river) (unspecified date range)

Canopus receives connections from:

None

Place type:
settlement

References:

See Further:

Related:

TM, GEO ID 1001

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 C2 Canopus

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Abukir

Alternate representations:
Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A. Bernand, DARMC, Simon Krause-Heiber, R. Talbert, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Canopus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2017 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727097> [accessed: 21 April 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727097 |title=Places: 727097 (Canopus) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=April 21, 2018 2:56 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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