Historical place profile
Ilerda
An ancient settlement reported only by the 4th century CE Roman poet Avienus, who places it on the east coast of the Iberian peninsula. If it is not a fiction, it might be identified as either modern Javea or modern Lérida, north of the river Ebro.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:271056
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:271056
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern, unlocated
- Coordinates
- 40.202076, 0.395055
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient settlement reported only by the 4th century CE Roman poet Avienus, who places it on the east coast of the Iberian peninsula. If it is not a fiction, it might be identified as either modern Javea or modern Lérida, north of the river Ebro.
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 27 Ilerda
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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