Tomis
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: A.G. Poulter
Creators: A.G. Poulter
Contributors:
DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott
Copyright © The Creators. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Apr 01, 2022 11:47 AM
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History
Tomis was founded as a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast ca. 600 B.C.
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http://3.22.44.247/places/217016
44.1728565, 28.6497375
- Representative Locations:
- DARE Location (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 100 meters.
- DARMC location 24141 (550 BC - AD 640) accuracy: +/- 10 meters.
- Tomis connection Unnamed road sequence: Deultum to Argamum (unspecified date range)
- Untitled located at Tomis (unspecified date range)
settlement
Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 22 F4 Tomis
The Barrington Atlas Directory notes: Constanţa
Augustus exiled the Roman poet Publius Ovidius Naso to Tomis in A.D. 8. Ovid would write the lamentations Tristia and Epistulae ex Ponto at Tomis and died there in A.D. 17.
A.G. Poulter, DARMC, R. Talbert, Brady Kiesling, Sean Gillies, Johan Åhlfeldt, Jeffrey Becker, and Tom Elliott, 'Tomis: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2022 <http://3.22.44.247/places/217016> [accessed: 05 July 2025]
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