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Canopus

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

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

Last modified Jun 08, 2018 07:19 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

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Atom, JSON, KML, KML (Neighborhood), RDF+XML, Turtle

Suggested citation:
A. Bernand, Jeffrey Becker, DARMC, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Brady Kiesling, Simon Krause-Heiber, R. Talbert, and Johan Åhlfeldt, 'Canopus: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727097> [accessed: 20 July 2018]

Cite this resource in Wikipedia:

            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727097 |title=Places: 727097 (Canopus) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=July 20, 2018 1:19 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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