Historical place profile
Icosium
Icosium (modern Algiers) was a Punic and, later, Roman settlement in coastal north Africa. Legend holds that 20 of Herakles' companions founded the original town.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:295276
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:295276
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 36.768912, 3.053218
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Icosium (modern Algiers) was a Punic and, later, Roman settlement in coastal north Africa. Legend holds that 20 of Herakles' companions founded the original town.
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 30 F3 Icosium
Source and reuse
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Research path
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