Iasonius (mountain)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jan 26, 2026 01:57 PM
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History
A mountain mentioned by Strabo, Ptolemy, and Ammianus. It is probably to be identified with Mount Damāvand in modern Iran.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903045
35.954365, 52.1103419
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: OSM location of Damavand (mountain) (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Cebel-i Demāvend (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Ἰασόνιον (Iasonion: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
- Iasonius (Iasonius M.: Latin, 330 BC - AD 640)
- Kūh-ı Demāvend (Ottoman Turkish, AD 1500 - AD 1599)
- Iasonius (mountain) connection Padishkhwar(gar)?/Pressouar?/Harborz M. (unspecified date range)
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mountain, volcano
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 92 H1 Iasonius? M.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Kuh-i Damavand
A. Hausleiter, M. Roaf, E.J. Keall, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, thoamse, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, and Enes Yılandiloğlu, 'Iasonius (mountain): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2026 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/903045> [accessed: 18 May 2026]
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