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Riginia

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: A.S. Esmonde Cleary

Contributors: R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker

Last modified Apr 24, 2021 09:58 AM — History

An island mentioned in various ancient sources with some drift or corruption in the representation of the name. It has long been identified by scholars with the island now known as Rathlin, which is located off the modern northern Irish coast, but Fitzpatrick-Matthews has recently argued for an identification with Jura in Scotland's Inner Hebrides.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89279

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
55.6254408059, -6.06491354455

Locations:

None

Names:

Geographic Names:
- Regaina (Latin, AD 700 - AD 799)
- Riginia (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Ῥικίνα (Rikina: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
Labels (map, atlas, gazetteer):
- ‘Rikina’? Ins. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)

Riginia makes connections with:

None

Riginia receives connections from:

Less than certain: Jura (island) same as Riginia (unspecified date range)
Less than certain: Rathlin Island same as Riginia (unspecified date range)

Place type:
island

References:

See Further:

Initial Provenance:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 9 A5 ‘Rikina’? Ins.

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Suggested citation:
A.S. Esmonde Cleary, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Riginia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2021 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89279> [accessed: 24 April 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/89279 |title=Places: 89279 (Riginia) |author=Esmonde Cleary, A. |accessdate=April 24, 2024 7:42 am |publisher=Pleiades}}

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