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Over 100 updates last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer, plus new records for few settlements, a villa, a mountain, some temples, a small Roman province, the agora of Messene, and the legendary "Wall of Romulus".

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #HGIS
pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Mar 23
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (16-23 March 2026): Over the past week the Pleiades editorial college published 12 new and 108 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Catherine Bouras, Anika Campbell, Ilaria Cristofaro, Tom Elliott […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from England in the north and the Iberian peninsula in the west to the Arabian peninsula and the Horn of Africa in the southeast.
March 23, 2026 at 7:50 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
#ancientGeography #ancientCartography
February 21, 2025 at 6:48 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Pleiades Datasets 4.1 has been released.

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pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy · May 28
Pleiades Datasets 4.1 has been released.

Get the official distribution: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15540082

Version 4.1 - 28 May 2025: 41,480 place resources

Since release 4.0.1 of pleiades.datasets on 6 February 2025, the Pleiades gazetteer published 287 new and 2,757 updated place […]
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May 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy · Feb 5
2024 Pleiades gazetteer change log

Over the course of the year 2024, the Pleiades editorial college published 711 new and 7,827 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Ella Arnold, Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Sarah Bond, Catherine Bouras, Lucas Butler, Iulian Bîrzescu, Anne Chen […]
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February 5, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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#PleiadesGazetteer #SneakPeek #epigraphy #ancientGeography
pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 16
Since Monday, the #pleiadesgazetteer editorial college has published 27 new and 130 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 7 people. The usual Monday blog post will summarize a full week's worth of such work, but meantime here's a #sneakpeek at one […]

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A gray-toned satellite image map, centered on the Crimean peninsula. The Ukranian cyrillic label for Odessa is visible at upper left. A blue-and-orange round symbol is placed near the center on the south-south-east side of the peninsula.
January 16, 2026 at 3:37 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
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pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Feb 2
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (26 January - 2 February 2026): Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 10 new and 319 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Joel Bellviure, Tom Elliott, Maxime Guénette, José Antonio […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from Hadrian's Wall in the north to southern Arabia and from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to Sri Lanka.
February 2, 2026 at 2:44 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
The #PleiadesGazetteer is now including ToposText links in the Linked Data Sidebar. Read all about it: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/to...

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The ToposText Logo, crediting the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation.
October 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
#ancientGeography #RomanHistory #archaeology
drbecjones.bsky.social Rebecca Jones @drbecjones.bsky.social · Jun 5
Delighted that my Roman Camps in Scotland (2011) is now Open Access!
Thanks to Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and Ordnance Survey
socantscot.bsky.social Society of Antiquaries of Scotland @socantscot.bsky.social · Jun 5
NEW OPEN ACCESS E-BOOK: 'Roman Camps in Scotland' by @drbecjones.bsky.social

Our 20th open access e-book will be of interest to those who wish to know more about the archaeology of the Roman army, its campaigns in northern Britain and the ancient military mind: www.socantscot.org/news/new-ope...
June 5, 2026 at 3:15 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
How do we know the ancient names of ancient places? There are many sorts of sources. Consider this newly published papyrus fragment, which contains a few names: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

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Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
How do we know the ancient names of ancient places? There are many sorts of sources. Sometimes, accounting documents or fragments thereof survive and sometimes they contain lists of estates. Often, ...
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June 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
🚨¡ New Roman boundary marker claxon! 🚨

"The inscription mentions a hitherto unknown imperial surveyor (censitor) ... [and] reveals two new toponyms ..."

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January 22, 2025 at 6:34 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer of ancient places (4-11 November 2024), the editorial college published 288 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker and Tom Elliott.

pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

Boosts appreciated.

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A terrain map with orange markers indicating updates and pink circles indicating new place resources. The map stretches from the Atlantic Ocean in the west to the Indian subcontinent in the east.
November 12, 2024 at 4:12 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Inbound links from place records in the @whgazetteer.org, as reflected in select datasets, are now included in the #PleiadesGazetteer Linked Data sidebar. Read all about it on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/th...

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The World Historical Gazetteer via the Pleiades Linked Data Sidebar
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September 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer

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pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Oct 6
Last Week in the #pleiadesgazetteer (29 September - 6 October 2025): The Pleiades editorial college published 17 new and 210 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Sean Gillies, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Chris de Lisle […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from northern Europe and the Strait of Gibraltar in the northwest to Sri Lanka in the southeast.
October 6, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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Last week in the #PleiadesGazetteer

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pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy Pleiades gazetteer @pleiades-gazetteer.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · Jan 20
Last Week in Pleiades (12-19 January 2026): Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 27 new and 186 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Gabriel Bodard, Matteo Di Domenica, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling […]

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map stretches from southern Scandanavia in the north to the middle Nile in the south and from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to modern Afghanistan in the east.
January 20, 2026 at 3:31 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
A lovely and detailed place description just contributed to the Pleiades gazetteer by @diffendale.bsky.social for the ancient remains at Civita di Bagno in Italy:

pleiades.stoa.org/places/413085

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Civita di Bagno: a Pleiades place resource
pleiades.stoa.org
July 15, 2025 at 9:31 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
FWIW, here's the #PleiadesGazetteer entry for Qasr Bshir (ancient Castra Praetorii Mobeni), with coordinates and bibliography:

pleiades.stoa.org/places/697647

CW: Satellite map shows evidence of damage and looting.

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Castra Praetorii Mobeni: a Pleiades place resource
pleiades.stoa.org
December 5, 2024 at 3:13 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Hey lazyweb friends, have any of you made or seen a viewshed analysis from/to Nemrut Dag? TIA

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March 11, 2026 at 1:27 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Pleiades Datasets 4.0.1 has been released and is available from zenodo.org, GitHub, and archive.nyu.edu.

See further: hcommons.social/@paregorios/...

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Tom Elliott (@paregorios@hcommons.social)
Pleiades Datasets 4.0.1 has been released: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14828116 https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/74877 https://github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.datasets/releases/tag/v4.0.1 A copy...
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February 6, 2025 at 11:34 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Last week the #PleiadesGazetteer editorial college published 17 new and 116 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 8 contributors and editors:
pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology #DH #gazetteers #HGIS
A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to the Hindu Kush in the east and from northern Europe to the southern Red Sea.
September 15, 2025 at 3:18 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (22-29 September 2025) the editorial college published 7 new and 210 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 8 contributors and editors. Full list and details: pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

#ancientGeography #ancientHistory #archaeology
A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from the Iberian peninsula in the west to the Ganges delta in the east and from northern Europe to central Africa.
September 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
It appears that the Bluesky bridge for the Pleiades gazetteer's social media presence in the Fediverse is working:

@pleiades.botsinbox.net.ap.brid.gy

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December 4, 2024 at 3:19 PM
antikekultur.bsky.social
Next (now!) in our lecture series @unimainz.bsky.social: Michael Rathmann (#KUEichstätt) on his research on the #TabulaPeutingeriana

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December 18, 2023 at 5:19 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (1-8 September 2025) the editorial college published 14 new and 160 updated place resources, reflecting the work of 4 people. More details here: hcommons.social/@pleiades_ga...

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Pleiades gazetteer (@pleiades_gazetteer@hcommons.social)
Attached: 1 image Last Week in Pleiades (1-8 September 2025) Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 14 new and 160 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Canan Arıkan-Caba, Jeff...
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September 8, 2025 at 2:47 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Last Week in the #PleiadesGazetteer (15-22 September 2025), the editorial college published 17 new and 233 updated place resources, reflecting the work of thirteen people and two organizations. Full details on the blog at pleiades.stoa.org/news/blog/la...

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A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from modern Morocco in the west to Sri Lanka in the east and from northern Europe to the Horn of Africa.
September 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
paregorios.bsky.social
Newly published:

Talbert, Richard J. A. The Kieperts’ Asia Minor Ancient and Ottoman: Capstones of Route-Based Cartography. History of Classical Scholarship (supplementary volume), March 24, 2025. www.hcsjournal.org/ojs/index.ph....

#cartography #ancientGeography
The Kieperts’ Asia Minor Ancient and Ottoman: Capstones of Route-Based Cartography | History of Classical Scholarship
www.hcsjournal.org
March 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM