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06 November 2025

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Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

6 new and 22 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

bf3ded4e - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
8c55b9a2 - updated gis package
8f1c9f6b - updated data quality
9175534b - updated bibliography
4d890d98 - updated indexes
eb803ae3 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

f4988eec - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

a4039771 - updated pleiades wikidata

05 November 2025

Export Updates 2025-11-05:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

300 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

98de6398 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
32f27542 - updated gis package
57a9b326 - updated data quality
291e2683 - updated bibliography
6f0f0db8 - updated indexes
65c36b38 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

1a54e1d8 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

fb5b55e6 - updated pleiades wikidata

04 November 2025

Regular verification and updating of gazetteer HTML resource pages in the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine has been run for the period through 6am EDT on 2025-11-04. Today we checked 54 recently created or updated Pleiades place resources and their subordinate components. Of these, the Wayback Machine reported that its copies of 53 of these web pages were missing or out-of-date. We requested updates with new snapshots for all of them and 39 of them were successfully updated after which the Wayback machine API error rate caused our script to stop attempting further checks and updates. Updates that failed or that were left unattempted will be tried again at the end of the month.

04 November 2025

Export Updates 2025-11-04:
Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places

5 new and 45 updated places.

1. Downloads: pleiades.stoa.org/downloads

2. pleiades.datasets: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades.da:

"main" branch:

020437a8 - updated json
no change: rdf/ttl
66f91f66 - updated gis package
a4b6a16b - updated data quality
afe9045b - updated bibliography
93268cf7 - updated indexes
10e98735 - updated sidebar

3. pleiades-geojson: github.com/ryanfb/pleiades-geo:

ee587d15 - updated geojson and names index

4. pleiades_wikidata: github.com/isawnyu/pleiades_wi:

5aaa08ec - updated pleiades wikidata

04 November 2025

The Slovak language, written in its standard writing system (i.e., Roman characters), has been added to the "name languages" vocabulary used for name resources in the Pleiades gazetteer. The IANA-registered code "sk" has been used for the entry: pleiades.stoa.org/vocabularies

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Last week the Pleiades editorial college published 4 new and 342 updated place resources, reflecting the work of Jeffrey Becker, Tom Elliott, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling, Rosemary Selth, R. Scott Smith, and the World Historical Gazetteer.
Last Week in Pleiades (13-20 October 2025)

A terrain map with orange markers for updates and pink circles for new place resources. The map covers the area from central Europe in the north to southern Africa and from the Strait of Gibraltar in the west to Myanmar.

New Place Resources

  • Kingdom of Mapungubwe
    A state once located in the southern part of the continent of Africa, near the confluence of the Shashe and Limpopo Rivers, south of Great Zimbabwe. The Kingdom of Mapungubwe collapsed in the fourteenth century.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Monte Stallone catacomb (Formello)
    A Christian catacomb at Monte Stallone near Formello (Italy) was discovered in the 1960s.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Published by: Tom Elliott
  • Nachchaduwa Tank
    A major modern reservoir in Sri Lanka, located southeast of Anuradhapura. Its original construction is traditionally dated to the late third or early fourth century CE. BAtlas 5 inset labels its geometry as "Megisba Stagnum", a toponym for a swamp or wetland reported by Pliny during the first century CE.
    Creators: Tom Elliott
    Published by: Tom Elliott, Jeffrey Becker
  • Prato La Corte
    A villa rustica was excavated near Licenza in 1913, the exact position of which is no longer known. This site included a possible granary room, as well as a torcular.
    Creators: Jeffrey Becker
    Contributors: Tom Elliott
    Published by: Tom Elliott

Updated Place Resources

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