Tanais
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: David Braund
Creators: David Braund
Contributors:
Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, Diane Braund
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 27, 2022 10:35 AM
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History
Tanais (located near modern Nedvigovska) was a city of the third century B.C. founded on the banks of the Tanais river by Bosporanian Greeks.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/825397
47.2686877906, 39.335670567
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- OSM location of Archaeological museum-reserve "Tanais" (330 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Τάναϊς (Tanais: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Tanais connection Tanais (river) (unspecified date range)
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settlement
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 84 E1 Tanais
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Nedvigovka
David Braund, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Talbert, and Diane Braund, 'Tanais: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/825397> [accessed: 14 November 2024]
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