Historical place profile
Mago
Mago (now Mahón or Maó) on the island of Menorca was established as an ancient commercial center because of its high-quality harborage. Its ancient name is thought to derive from Mago, brother of Hannibal, who occupied the Insula Minor after he fled from Gades in 206 BCE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:265960
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:265960
- Place type
- settlement, settlement-modern
- Coordinates
- 39.889432, 4.264729
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Mago (now Mahón or Maó) on the island of Menorca was established as an ancient commercial center because of its high-quality harborage. Its ancient name is thought to derive from Mago, brother of Hannibal, who occupied the Insula Minor after he fled from Gades in 206 BCE.
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 inset Mago
Source and reuse
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Research path
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