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🌍 Cassiterris (island)

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  • Information
    unlocatable island often associated with the source of tin and placed off the Atlantic coast of Europe
    Wikidata
    https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q656900
    Pleiades
    https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/583607985
    Related entities
    👤 Midacritos first importer of tin according to Pliny
    Mentioned by
    📖 Pliny, Natural History 7.197📖 Pomponius Mela 3.47
    Mentioned in text
    Pliny, Natural HistoryPomponius Mela
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