Historical place profile
Tingi
Tingi (modern Tangier) began as a Carthaginian colony of the early fifth century BCE. A commercial center, Tingi came under the Roman sphere in the first century BCE, initially as a free city but later as the site of a colony (Colonia Julia) under Claudius and the capital of Mauritania Tingitana.
Record details
- Research ID
- catholon:place:pleiades:275736
- Catalogue ID
- pleiades:275736
- Place type
- port, settlement
- Coordinates
- 35.787546, -5.810233
- Precision
- precise
- Locator semantics
- representative_point_not_boundary
Historical description
Tingi (modern Tangier) began as a Carthaginian colony of the early fifth century BCE. A commercial center, Tingi came under the Roman sphere in the first century BCE, initially as a free city but later as the site of a colony (Colonia Julia) under Claudius and the capital of Mauritania Tingitana.
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 C2 Tingi
Source and reuse
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Research path
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