Historical place profile
Septem
Now the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Septem is an ancient port whose phases are not entirely clear owing to modern overburden. The city was the seat of a bishopric in the Byzantine period and was the last of Morocco's cities to recognize the authority of the emperor at the time of the Arab conquest.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:275703
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:275703
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.888245, -5.316583
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Now the Spanish exclave of Ceuta, Septem is an ancient port whose phases are not entirely clear owing to modern overburden. The city was the seat of a bishopric in the Byzantine period and was the last of Morocco's cities to recognize the authority of the emperor at the time of the Arab conquest.
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 28 D2 Septem
Source and reuse
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Research path
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