Tainaron (promontory)
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
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Tainaron (Cape Matapan) is the southernmost point of mainland Greece.
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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570703
36.3854893, 22.4831369
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Cape Matapan (modern) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.
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- Ακρωτήριο Ταίναρο (Akroterio Tainaro: Modern Greek)
- Cape Matapan (English, modern)
- Ταίναρον (Tainaron: Ancient Greek, 30 BC - AD 300)
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- Tainaron Pr. (English, AD 1900 - AD 1999)
- Tainaron (promontory) connection Asinaeus/Coronaeus Sinus (unspecified date range)
- Tainaron (promontory) connection Laconicus Sinus (unspecified date range)
- Tainaron (promontory) connection Peloponnesus/Peloponnesos/Peloponnese (unspecified date range)
- Tainaron (settlement) located on Tainaron (promontory) (unspecified date range)
cape, promontory
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- Related:
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 58 C5 Tainaron Pr.
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Akr. Tainaron
G. Reger, J. McK. Camp II, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Tom Elliott, and Jeffrey Becker, 'Tainaron (promontory): a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2024 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/570703> [accessed: 28 January 2025]
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