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🌍 Taras (Italy)

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  • Alternative names
    Taranto
    Information
    city in Southern Italy, modern Taranto
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3981082
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/442810
    Founded by
    πŸ‘€ Taras (eponym) eponym of Taras, son of Poseidon
    Eponym
    πŸ‘€ Taras (eponym) eponym of Taras, son of Poseidon
    Related Entities
    πŸ‘€ Taras (eponym) eponym of Taras, son of Poseidon🌍 River Taras (Italy) river in Southern Italy🌍 Metapontion (Italy) city in southern ItalyπŸ‘€ Leucippos (Achaian)πŸ‘€ Oibalos king of Sparta, husband of GorgophoneπŸ‘€ Heracles greatest Greek hero
    Mentioned by
    πŸ“– Pausanias 10.10.8πŸ“– Strabo 6.1.15πŸ“– Strabo 6.3.2🎨 Tarentine Silver Stater (Type)πŸ“– Vergil, Georgics 4.125-4.133πŸ“– Callimachus fr. 617 PfeifferπŸ“– Pliny, Natural History 9.8.1
    Mentioned in Text
    PausaniasStraboVergil, GeorgicsCallimachusPliny, Natural History
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