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Şabrātah

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Latitude: 32.805301, Longitude: 12.4843006

Provenance: Pleiades

Latitude: 32.805423, Longitude: 12.482771

Provenance: Google Earth

Latitude: 32.79335, Longitude: 12.48845 , Altitude: 7m

Provenance: Geonames

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External URIs

http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/TPPlace289.html

http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344282

http://inslib.kcl.ac.uk/irt2009/introductions/I1_sabratha.html

http://www.geonames.org/2212771

http://gazetteer.dainst.org/place/2042664

http://www.trismegistos.org/place/16995

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/184

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabratha

https://topostext.org/place/328125UAbr

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q192918

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Notes

Kenrick, Tripolitania, Section 2 Reynold, IRT Section 1: Sabratha, situated on the narrow coastal fringe of the Gefara, was geographically the least favoured of the three cities of the Tripolis, but owed its position to the presence of a small, yet adequate, natural harbour. Recent excavation in the neighbourhood of the Forum has shown expansion of the city during the second century BC, the first century AD and culminating in a wave of prosperity under the later Antonines, when the city reached its greatest extent, and many new public buildings were built. The city was was later occupied by the Vandals, and finally fell to Arab invaders in the seventh century AD.

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