Longos (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
May 05, 2023 10:10 PM
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History
Ptolemy names the Longos river in his circumdescription of the island of Alouion (Albion). It is possibly to be identified with the modern Loch Linnhe, which is open to the sea on Scotland's west coast.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89229
56.6094333388, -5.39411417893
- Associated Modern Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Loch Linnhe (AD 2000 - AD 2099) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Less than certain: Λόγγος (Longos: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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water, open, river, drainage
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 B4 Longos? fl.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Loch Linnhe
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Longos (river): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89229> [accessed: 22 June 2025]
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