Tamaros (river)
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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A river name provided only by Ptolemy and thought by scholars to be identifiable with the modern Plymouth Sound estuary and its contributory, the Tamar (southwest England).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79704
50.4940356969, -4.23408520641
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Geonames location of Plymouth Sound (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
- OSM location of River Tamar (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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river, drainage, river mouth, estuary
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 C4 Tamaros fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Tamar
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tamaros (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/79704> [accessed: 27 April 2025]
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Also cited as Tamaris at position 240 in the Ravenna Cosmography's tour of harbour estuaries. Another Tamaris was a place, probably higher up the river at Launceston.