Fretum Oceani/Gallicum
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Jul 31, 2025 04:45 PM
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The strait separating Gallia and Britannia.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79469
51.01490825, 1.52709685
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of Strait of Dover (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Fretum Gallicum (Latin, AD 300 - AD 640)
- Fretum Oceani (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Strait of Dover (English, modern)
- Straits of Dover (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
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water, open, strait
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 I4 Fretum Oceani/Gallicum
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Straits of Dover
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Gabriel Moss, Jeffrey Becker, R. Warner, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Fretum Oceani/Gallicum: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79469> [accessed: 08 February 2026]
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