Icosium
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: T.W. Potter
Creators: T.W. Potter
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, Gabriel Bodard
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Dec 17, 2019 03:02 PM
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History
Icosium (modern Algiers) was a Punic and, later, Roman settlement in coastal north Africa. Legend holds that 20 of Herakles' companions founded the original town.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/295276
36.7689125, 3.0532175
- Representative Locations:
- DARMC location 12849 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
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- Algiers (English, modern)
- Icosium (550 BC - AD 640)
- مدينة الجزائر (Madīnat al-Dschazā'ir: Algerian Arabic, modern)
- الجزائر (al-Jazā’ir: Arabic, modern)
- None
- Casae Calventi? next place in route Icosium (30 BC - AD 640)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 30 F3 Icosium
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Algiers
T.W. Potter, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Valeria Vitale, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, DARMC, R. Warner, R. Talbert, and Gabriel Bodard, 'Icosium: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2019 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/295276> [accessed: 25 April 2025]
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