*Manavia (island)
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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*Manavia Ins. (The Isle of Man) is an island in the Irish Sea between Britain and Ireland.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89242
54.197132475, -4.56385498963
- Associated Modern Locations:
- OSM location: Isle of Man (unspecified date range) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Isle of Man (English, modern)
- Mona (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Monapia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- *Manavia (island) connection Iouernikos Okeanos (unspecified date range)
- Cronk ny Merriu connection *Manavia (island) (unspecified date range)
island
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 C6 *Manavia Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Isle of Man
The Isle of Man appears in at least three ancient literary sources. From Ptolemy, the toponym Monaoeda is attested, while the Ravenna Cosmography uses Manavi. In Pliny the Elder, the toponym Monapia is used.
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, '*Manavia (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89242> [accessed: 18 May 2026]
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Among all the names used in Roman times for various islands (Man, Anglesey, Arran, etc) one spelling that was NOT used was Manavia! Discussed at www.academia.edu/128481026/The_Earliest_Names_of_Britains_Western_Islands. Note also www.romaneranames.uk/m/manavi.htm about various 'wetland peoples', not islands.