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🌍 Taras (Italy)

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  • 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
    πŸ‘€ Taras (eponym)
    Related entities
    πŸ‘€ Taras (eponym)🌍 River Taras (Italy)🌍 Metapontion (Italy)πŸ‘€ Leucippos (Achaian)πŸ‘€ OibalosπŸ‘€ Heracles
    Mentioned by
    πŸ“– Pausanias 10.10.8πŸ“– Strabo 6.1.15πŸ“– Strabo 6.3.2πŸ“– Vergil, Georgics 4.125-4.133πŸ“– Callimachus fr. 617 PfeifferπŸ“– Pliny, Natural History 9.8.1
    Mentioned in text
    PausaniasStraboVergil, GeorgicsCallimachusPliny, Natural History
    Depictions
    🎨 Tarentine Silver Stater (Type)
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