Historical place profile
A(u)xoume
Present-day Aksum in Ethiopia. The center of the Aksumite Kingdom, a maritime trading power that flourished from the first to the tenth centuries AD. The city was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:39303
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:39303
- Place type
- cultural-landscape, settlement
- Coordinates
- 14.133850, 38.721292
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Present-day Aksum in Ethiopia. The center of the Aksumite Kingdom, a maritime trading power that flourished from the first to the tenth centuries AD. The city was listed as UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980.
Geographic evidence
The coordinates are a representative_point_not_boundary. They identify a research anchor and do not by themselves assert an ancient administrative boundary or the full extent of the settlement.
Provenance: Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 4 A3 A(u)xoume
Source and reuse
This profile derives from the Pleiades current GIS record, licensed CC BY 3.0. Pleiades place record The profile preserves the source name, point, type, description, precision and provenance without silently adding a boundary reconstruction.
Research path
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