Burcana (island)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: J.H.F. Bloemers 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
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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).
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/98930
53.588056, 6.669722
- location of Burcana Ins. (modern)
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- Burcana (30 BC - AD 640)
- Burcana (island) connection Germanicum Mare (unspecified date range)
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island
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 10 C3 Burcana Ins.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Borkum GER
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: 16 May 2021]
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