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Burcana (island)

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers
Contributors: R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Jan 12, 2020 03:59 PM — History
Burcana Ins. (Borkum) is an island in the North Sea. It is mentioned by Strabo and Pliny the Elder as the Burchana fabaria (island of beans).

Base map by Ryan M. Horne for Pleiades and the Ancient World Mapping Center (ancient terrain after the Barrington Atlas). Map interaction design and implementation by Sean Gillies, David Glick, Alec Mitchell, and Tom Elliott for Pleiades.


https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/98930

53.588056, 6.669722
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island

Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 10 C3 Burcana Ins.

The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Borkum GER


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J.H.F. Bloemers, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Burcana (island): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/98930> [accessed: 02 June 2020] 

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