Historical place profile
Gadeira/Gades/Col. Augusta Gaditana
Gadeira/Gades/Col. Augusta Gaditana (modern Cadiz, Spain) is an ancient city of Spain and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities of Europe. Its origins may be Phoenician (Gadir (Phoenician: גדר)).
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:256177
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:256177
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.529278, -6.293121
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Gadeira/Gades/Col. Augusta Gaditana (modern Cadiz, Spain) is an ancient city of Spain and one of the oldest continuously occupied cities of Europe. Its origins may be Phoenician (Gadir (Phoenician: גדר)).
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 26 D5 Gadeira/Gades/Col. Augusta Gaditana
Source and reuse
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Research path
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