Macatonion
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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Sep 02, 2023 09:24 PM
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An ancient place, cited: BAtlas 8 unlocated Macatonion
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83859
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 8 Macatonion
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Gloucester
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Macatonion: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/83859> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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This name reeks of Greek words related to Μαχη ‘fight’ and the sequence of names in the Cosmography puts it somewhere near the Welsh border, where the Romans finally defeated Caratacus.