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Mareotis L.

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A. Bernand

Contributors: R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, Eric Kansa

Last modified Feb 21, 2016 12:02 AM — History

tags: dare:ancient=1, dare:feature=settlement, dare:major=0

A brackish lake of Lower Egypt (now Lake Mariout).

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727154

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
31.1575, 29.898889

Locations:

Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 34888 (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Buḥairat Maryūṭ (Modern Standard Arabic, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Limnē tēs Mareias (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Mareia Limnē (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Mareia limnē (304 BC - AD 640)
- Mareotis L. (330 BC - AD 640)
- Mareotis Limne (330 BC - AD 640)
- Mareōtis (Ancient Greek, 304 BC - AD 640)
- Maryut-See (German, AD 1918 - AD 2000)

Mareotis L. makes connections with:

None

Mareotis L. receives connections from:

None

Place type:
lake

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 74 B2 Mareotis L.

Details:

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Lake Mariout

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Suggested citation:
A. Bernand, R. Talbert, Jeffrey Becker, W. Röllig, Tom Elliott, H. Kopp, DARMC, Sean Gillies, B. Siewert-Mayer, Francis Deblauwe, and Eric Kansa, 'Mareotis L.: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2016 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727154> [accessed: 25 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/727154 |title=Places: 727154 (Mareotis L.) |author=Bernand, A. |accessdate=April 25, 2024 6:55 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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