Historical place profile
Tharros
An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano, just south of modern San Giovanni di Sinis. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BCE, it continued as a major town in Roman times.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:472032
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:472032
- Place type
- archaeological-site, settlement
- Coordinates
- 39.874865, 8.441009
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
An ancient Phoenician settlement located in western Sardinia on a promontory in the Gulf of Oristano, just south of modern San Giovanni di Sinis. While it originates as a Punic or Carthaginian settlement ca. 700 BCE, it continued as a major town in Roman times.
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 48 A3 Tharros
Source and reuse
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Research path
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