Varini
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
Dec 05, 2013 07:46 AM
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History
A Germanic people, mentioned first by Tacitus. Localized by scholars in the vicinity of modern Mecklenburg, Germany on the basis of ancient description and Ptolemy's gazetteer.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/99055
53.5, 12.5
- Representative Locations:
- Less than certain: Centerpoint of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (modern) accuracy: +/- 30 meters.
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- Varini (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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region, people, tribe (historical cultural group)
- See Further:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 10 I3 Varini
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: GER
J.H.F. Bloemers, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, Amy Hawkins, and Tom Elliott, 'Varini: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2013 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/99055> [accessed: 22 December 2024]
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