Deoua (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).
Last modified
Jan 14, 2025 04:28 PM
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History
The River Dee flows from the Cairngorms to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
500 km
Base style derived from Mapbox Satellite Streets. | Pleiades layers and interaction design by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, Ryan M. Horne, and Tom Elliott.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89164
57.0512631014, -2.90377916625
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location of course of River Dee (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Deoua (30 BC - AD 300)
- Deoua (river) flows into Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
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river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 E3 Deoua fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Dee
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Talbert, Ryan Horne, R. Warner, Jeffrey Becker, Sean Gillies, and Tom Elliott, 'Deoua (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89164> [accessed: 26 March 2025]
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Common ancient river name. Two more instances of Δηουα in Britain are mentioned by Ptolemy, at Chester and Kirkcudbright. Parallels include Θηβα (Thebes) in Greece with an Egyptian namesake.