Historical place profile
Tartessos
Tartessos was a harbor city and surrounding region located on the southern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:256468
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:256468
- Place type
- label, port, settlement, unlocated
- Coordinates
- 37.292980, -6.671542
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tartessos was a harbor city and surrounding region located on the southern coast of the Iberian peninsula at the mouth of the Guadalquivir River.
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 26 D4 Tartessos
Source and reuse
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Research path
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