Historical place profile
Cillium
Cillium (modern Kasserine, Tunisia) occupies a strategic location in the gap between the Semmama and Chambi mountains, along the road from Gafsa.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:324694
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:324694
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.167659, 8.797764
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Cillium (modern Kasserine, Tunisia) occupies a strategic location in the gap between the Semmama and Chambi mountains, along the road from Gafsa.
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 33 C2 Cillium
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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