Historical place profile
Aspis/Clipea
Aspis/Clipea, located on the Cap Bon peninsula, was founded in the fifth century BC by the Carthaginians. Site of the Siege of Aspis (255 BC), the first land battle in Africa during the First Punic War.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:314892
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:314892
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.838512, 11.115794
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Aspis/Clipea, located on the Cap Bon peninsula, was founded in the fifth century BC by the Carthaginians. Site of the Siege of Aspis (255 BC), the first land battle in Africa during the First Punic War.
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 32 H3 Aspis/Clipea
Source and reuse
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Research path
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