Hercynia Silva
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: H. Bender Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Feb 28, 2023 09:56 PM
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History
An ancient forest located east of the Rhine river in southern Germany. The precise location and extent of the forest remains uncertain, although the Black Forest formed the western part of the Hercynian Forest.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/123090
48.3, 8.15
- Representative Locations:
- GeoHack location of the modern Black Forest (modern) accuracy: +/- 2000 meters.
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- Hercynia Silva (30 BC - AD 640)
- Hercynia Silva (Latin, 30 BC - AD 300)
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unlocated, forest
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 12 Hercynia Silva
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: N Danuvius fl.
H. Bender, G. Moosbauer, R. Talbert, Sean Gillies, M. Puhane, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Hercynia Silva: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2023 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/123090> [accessed: 24 April 2025]
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