Africa (region)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 06, 2025 11:04 AM
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The region of modern North Africa to which the Romans referred as "Africa", effectively the majority of same with the exception of Egypt, later truncated to correspond to the Roman province of the same name.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/775
32.5, 7.5
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Africa (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Africa (region) abuts Internum Mare (unspecified date range)
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region
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 1 E4 Africa
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R. Talbert, Brian Z. Lund, Mary E. Downs, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Africa (region): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/775> [accessed: 10 March 2025]
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