Thospitis Limne
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Lake Van, the largest lake in Asia Minor, is a saline soda lake.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874772
38.6687552849, 42.9950019277
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Lake Van (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Van, Lake (Lake Van: English, modern)
- Thespites L. (30 BC - AD 300)
- Θωπῖτις (Thopitis: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Th(o)spites (Thospites: Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Θωσπῖτις λίμνη (Thospitis Limne: Ancient Greek, 330 BC - AD 300)
- Van Gölü (Van Golu: Turkish, modern)
- Վանա լիճ (Vana lich: Armenian, modern)
- Thospitis Limne part of (physical/topographic) Urartu (900 BC - 600 BC)
- Akdamar Island part of (physical/topographic) Thospitis Limne (unspecified date range)
lake
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 E2 Thospitis Limne
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: L. Van
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Thospitis Limne: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/874772> [accessed: 20 April 2024]
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