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Cassiterides

The Cassiterides (Ancient Greek: Κασσιτερίδες, meaning "tin place", from κασσίτερος, kassíteros "tin") are an ancient geographical name used to refer to a group of islands whose precise location is unknown, but which was believed to be situated somewhere near the west coast of Europe.

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Cassiterides

Nodes72
Edges71
Triples103
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.027778
Components1

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related to Modern attempts at identification · 36
Cassiterides → Artabrians, Avienius, Bay, Beer, Before, Biscay, Britannia, British Isles, Brivet, Brière, Bronze Age, Cornwall, De Beer, Gavin, Greeks, Hibernia, Hispania, Iberian, Iberian Peninsula, Isles
related to Ancient geography · 31
Cassiterides → Adriatic Sea, BC, Britain, Celtiberia, Celtici, Circumnavigation, Cres, Cádiz, Diodorus, Diodorus Siculus, Dionysios Periegetes, Elder, Following, Herodotus, Hesperides, Iberia, Iberian Peninsula, Later, Lusitania, Northwest Iberia
related to Secondary sources · 31
Cassiterides → Albion, Ancient Britain, Association, Bretagne, BRGM, British Isles, Bulletin, Cambridge University Press, Carte Géologique, Cassitérite, Dublin, Encyclopædia Britannica, France, Francis John, Guérande, Haverfield, Hugh, In Chisholm, La Baule, Le Croisic
related to Strabo · 4
Cassiterides → Britain, Geog, Iberian, Strabo's
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Cassiterides → Phantom island

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tin islands herodotus britain iberia sea northwest strabo ancient de near coast 115 lead name europe κασσιτερίδας histories bc river

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
CassiteridesTypePhantom island1.00infobox
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyHerodotus0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyBC0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyLater0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyPosidonius0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyDiodorus Siculus0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyStrabo0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyIberian Peninsula0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyDiodorus0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyNorthwest Iberia0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyPtolemy0.60section
Cassiteridesrelated to Ancient geographyDionysios Periegetes0.60section

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