Historical place profile
Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis
Nicephorium (modern ar-Raqqa in Syria) was an ancient settlement on the river Euphrates in Syria. It may be identical with Callinicum, which was renamed Leontopolis in the mid-fifth century CE.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:668318
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:668318
- Place type
- settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.950018, 39.056991
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Nicephorium (modern ar-Raqqa in Syria) was an ancient settlement on the river Euphrates in Syria. It may be identical with Callinicum, which was renamed Leontopolis in the mid-fifth century CE.
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 68 G2 Nicephorium/Callinicum/Leontopolis
Source and reuse
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Research path
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