‘Ayn Wīf
URI
Coordinates
Latitude: 32.242094, Longitude: 13.370226
Provenance: Google Earth
Latitude: 32.226127, Longitude: 13.366421
Provenance: Pleiades
Latitude: 32.23979, Longitude: 13.3694 , Altitude: 386m
Provenance: Geonames
Latitude: 32.2420922, Longitude: 13.3702322 , Altitude: 422m
Provenance: Kenrick GPS
External URIs
http://www.geonames.org/2208839
http://pleiades.stoa.org/places/344510
Variant names
Feature type(s)
Fountain/well/spring , Settlement
Relationships with other locations
Relationships with other locations
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Related locations
This is a location within which a location falls. Most of these are conceptual – for example a Roman Province, a Hellenistic Kingdom or the chapter of a book – so many locations have multiple parent locations.- ‘Ayn Wīf forms part of Africa Proconsularis (Roman province)
- ‘Ayn Wīf forms part of Eastern Djebel (Reynolds)
- ‘Ayn Wīf forms part of Eastern Jabal and the Tarhunah plateau (Kenrick)
- ‘Ayn Wīf forms part of Tripolitana (Mattingly)
Child features
Inverted related locations
These are locations contained within the location – these may, for example be monuments within a settlement, or zones within a cityNotes
Third Augustan Legion was stationed at Ain Wif (ancient Thenadassa) on the road which ran up from Leptis Magna through Medina Doga (ancient Mesphe) and on westward to Turris Tamalleni in modern Tunisia.