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ID: 8698155
Page Link:
http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn/8698155
Record Type:
administrative
Meninx (deserted settlement)
Coordinates:
Lat: 33 41 09 N
degrees minutes
Lat: 33.6850
decimal degrees
Long: 010 55 20 E
degrees minutes
Long: 10.9220
decimal degrees
Note:
Largest ancient site on modern-day Djerba. Already a city in the Punic era, and likely the capital when island and city shared the same name. One of the most important production centers of Tyrian purple.
Names:
Meninx
(
preferred
,
H
,
V
,
display
)
El-Kantara
(
C
,
V
)
Hierarchical Position:
World
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Africa
(continent) (
P
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Tūnis
(nation) (
P
)
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Médenine
(governorate) (
P
)
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Jerba, Île de
(island) (
P
)
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Meninx
(deserted settlement) (
P
)
Place Types:
deserted settlement (
preferred
,
C
)
archaeological site (
C
)
inhabited place (
H
)
Sources and Contributors:
El-Kantara..........
[
VP
]
.......................
Graham, Roman Occupation of North Africa (1902)
.......................
Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites [online] (2000-)
accessed 13 October 2016
Meninx..........
[
VP Preferred
]
.................
Graham, Roman Occupation of North Africa (1902)
240
.................
Institut für klassische archäologie [online], Meninx (2015)
Subject:
.....
[
VP
]
..................
Google Maps online (2000-)
accessed 13 October 2016
Note:
English
..........
[
VP
]
..........
Graham, Roman Occupation of North Africa (1902)
..........
Institut für klassische archäologie [online], Meninx (2015)
accessed 13 October 2016
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