Oruros
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).
Last modified
May 27, 2026 02:34 PM
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History
Now unlocated, Pliny the Elder remarks that Oruros, located some 250 Roman miles from Zeugma, marked the limit of the Roman Empire in the time of Cnaeus Pompeius.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/876676
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (330 BC - AD 300)
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- Oruros (Latin, 330 BC - AD 300)
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None
unlocated
- Evidence:
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 89 Oruros
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Roman border in Pompey’s time
M. Roaf, T. Sinclair, S.E. Kroll, St J. Simpson, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Oruros: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/876676> [accessed: 11 July 2026]
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