Asia
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: J.J. Wilkes, S.T. Parker, R.S. Bagnall, W.V. Harris, A.S. Esmonde-Cleary, C.M. Wells, J.F. Drinkwater, R.C. Knapp, S. Mitchell
Creators: J.J. Wilkes, S.T. Parker, R.S. Bagnall, W.V. Harris, A.S. Esmonde-Cleary, C.M. Wells, J.F. Drinkwater, R.C. Knapp, S. Mitchell
Contributors:
Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, Mary E. Downs
Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Feb 14, 2018 09:27 PM
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History
The Roman province of Asia, located on the eastern coast of the Aegean Sea. The region was bequeathed to the Roman Republic by Attalus III of Pergamum in 133 BCE. It was divided into seven smaller provinces by Diocletian in the 4th century CE.
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https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/981509
37.5, 27.5
- Representative Locations:
- Barrington Atlas location (unspecified date range)
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- Asia (unspecified date range)
- Asia abuts Aegaeum Mare (330 BC - AD 300)
- Asia part of (regional) Asia Minor (330 BC - AD 300)
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province, diocese, nome (deprecated)
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 100 M4 Asia
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: province
J.J. Wilkes, S.T. Parker, R.S. Bagnall, W.V. Harris, A.S. Esmonde-Cleary, C.M. Wells, J.F. Drinkwater, R.C. Knapp, S. Mitchell, Sean Gillies, M. Joann McDaniel, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Mckee, Tom Elliott, Brian Z. Lund, R. Talbert, and Mary E. Downs, 'Asia: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2018 <https://pleiades.jazkarta.com/places/981509> [accessed: 04 July 2025]
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