Charidemos (promontory)

natural · 30 BC – 2099 AD

Ptolemy places the "headland of Charidemos" on the southern coast of the Iberian peninsula between Abdera and Barea. Scholars have identified it as the modern Cabo de Gata.

Coordinates

36.72103, -2.19323

Also known as

Cabo de Gata (es), Cabo de Gata, Gata (Cabo de) (es), Charidemos Pr. (en), Charidemos Pr. (en), Charidemou akroterion, Charidémou akrōtérion (grc), Χαριδήμου ἀκρωτήριον (grc)

Dating

attested

Sources

• Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places · CC BY 3.0
  Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places (CC BY 3.0)

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